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ST. GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, INC. v. FIRE DEP'T OF SPRINGFIELD

SJC-10973.

462 Mass. 120 (2012)

ST. GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, INC. v. FIRE DEPARTMENT OF SPRINGFIELD & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

May 4, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. Moore, Associate City Solicitor (Edward M. Pikula, City Solicitor, with him) for the defendants.

John H. Fitz-Gibbon (John J. Green, Jr., with him) for the plaintiff.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

John J. Clifford for Fire Chiefs Association of Massachusetts.

Martha Coakley, Attorney General, & Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, for State Board of Building Regulations and Standards.

John Pagliaro & Martin J. Newhouse for New England Legal Foundation & another.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.

LENK, J.

The State Building Code, 780 Code Mass. Regs. §§ 101.00 (2010) (code), permits the installation of any one of four types of approved "fire protective signaling systems and automatic fire detection systems" in buildings throughout the Commonwealth. See 780 Code Mass. Regs. § 907.14.3 (2008). In 2006, the city of Springfield (city) enacted an ordinance that, in essence, proscribes the installation of all but one of the systems allowed by the...

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