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GARCIA v. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

No. SJC-12507.

480 Mass. 736 (2018)

ROSANNA GARCIA & others v. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 11, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel M. Furgang , Assistant Attorney General ( Kimberly A. Parr , Assistant Attorney General, also present) for the defendant.

Ruth A. Bourquin ( Laura Massie also present) for the plaintiffs.

Lerae Kroon & Andrea M. Park , for Massachusetts Law Reform Institute & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

Certain low income families in Massachusetts facing the harsh reality of homelessness are served by an emergency shelter program, run, since 2009, by the defendant Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). This case is before us on an interlocutory appeal by DHCD of a class-wide preliminary injunction concerning its operation...

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