The Superior Court had jurisdiction of a suit in equity under G. There was no merit in a contention that suits in equity under G. Considering together St. Section 7 of St. No evidence in a suit in equity challenging the validity of a statute authorizing certain municipalities to adopt rent control and of a town by-law adopting rent control supported allegations of the plaintiff landlords that the registration information required would make "public private financial information to which.
Allegations of the bill in a suit in equity in the Superior Court for declaratory and injunctive relief by two tenants of a city which had accepted St. John M. Muldoon, Jr. Philip M. Kenneth A. Axelrod for Brookline Landowners Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief. Herbert P. Michael E. These four cases consolidated for appeal bring to us questions arising out of two recently enacted Massachusetts rent control statutes. The constitutionality of these statutes is under attack in three principal suits seeking declaratory and injunctive relief.
In all three the existence of an actual controversy is admitted by the principal parties. Marshal House, Inc. Marshal House seeks a binding determination against the town of Brookline, its board of selectmen, and its rent control board that St.
The plaintiffs in the suit of Anna L. Aiello and another against the city of Cambridge, its mayor, its city council, its city manager, and its interim rent control administrator also seek a binding declaration that St. The suit of William W. Goldman and others against the town of Brookline, its board of selectmen, and its rent control board challenges the constitutionality of St.
A fourth suit, brought by Esther M. Carroll and another against the city of Cambridge, its mayor, its rent control administrator, and Henry J. O'Brien, a Cambridge landlord,. All of these suits have been reserved and reported without decision by two judges of the Superior Court upon the pleadings, exhibits and statements of agreed facts.
