A brief response to the joint status report filed by the Feoffees and the School Committee.
Appeals – Interveners – 120611 – Response to Joint Status Report
We have already been granted a stay of the appellate proceedings until July 24th, 2012 so this is largely a formality.
This is a joint status report of the Feoffees, the School Committee and the AG in which they complain about our appeal and ask the court to order an expedited briefing and hearing schedule, even though it was the School Committee’s own motion to compel that was prolonging the Probate Court action. As reported in the previous post, the Appeals Court granted our stay of the appeal until July 24th so that the Probate Court could assembly the record.
This is a status report where we ask the court to stay the appeal for two months (until July 24th) so that the Probate Court can finish assembling the record. The court granted the stay on May 29th.
The intervener’s motion to stay was denied by the single justice of the appeals court today meaning, in effect, that the agreement for judgment is allowed to move forward while we pursue our appeal.
Appeals – Court – 120312 – Denial of Motion to Stay
We will be studying the ruling in light of other actions in progress to determine next steps.
The intervener’s reply to the opposition of the Feoffees, School Committee and AG. Includes an affidavit from a confirmed direct descendant of William Payne.
Appeals – Interveners – 120301 – Motion for Leave to File Reply
Appeals – Interveners – 120301 – Reply Memo
Appeals – Interveners – 120301 – Affidavit of Mark Dixon
Appeals – Interveners – 120301 – Affidavit of Rachel Roesler
Appeals – Interveners – 120301 – Affidavit of Patrick McNally
For someone who wasn’t very interested in this issue for the decade that it mattered, she sure does seem interested in it now.
Justice Peter Agnes, Jr. is scheduled to hear our appeal on Friday, March 2 at 2:30 PM in Courtroom 3 of the John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Sq., Boston (near Government Center)
Your tax dollars hard at work, regardless of what the Selectmen think. More than just “settling” the Probate Court case, the School Committee is now sending money to its lawyers so that they can craft arguments that are diametrically opposed to the arguments they made with the first $700,000 of taxpayer money.
Appeals – SC – 120222 – Opposition to Motion to Stay
At the January 5th, 2012 School Committee meeting, Chairman Loeb made the comments in the audio clip below, finishing up by saying that “The Judge was leaning on counsel to have discussions.”
Now comes the School Committee counsel, in a joint affidavit with the counsel for the Feoffees, stating before the Appeals Court that “Any statement that the trial judge, in any way, applied any “pressure” or coercion on the parties to settle is false.”
Appeals – Joint – 120221 – Affidavit
So, the School Committee is presenting one picture to the public to explain their actions while their lawyer presents a completely different picture to the Appeals Court. Who should the citizens believe?
Ipswich Citizens for Public Trust 