Massachusetts Legal Overview: Lowell The Lowell metropolitan area is defined by the Census Bureau as covering parts of Middlesex County in Massachusetts and the town of Pelham in Hillsborough County, NH. Other parts of Middlesex County come under either the Boston MSA or the Fitchburg-Leominster MSA. All three metro areas are components of the Greater Boston CSA, which is defined by the Census Bureau as covering 10 such MSAs across four states. The main cities and towns in the section of Middlesex County, which comes under the Lowell metro area, are listed below.
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1. The Middlesex County Superior Court has its main courthouse in Woburn, which does not come under the Lowell metropolitan area. The superior court also sits in Lowell and is the main trial court for the county with general jurisdiction over everything from felonies to large civil disputes. Middlesex County also has 12 district courts, including the Lowell District Court. This court has limited jurisdiction over misdemeanors, city ordinance violations, small claims not exceeding $7,000 and civil disputes limited to $25,000. 2. Residents of Nicholas Common, a community in Billerica, have got themselves legal representation for a possible $750,000 lawsuit against their own condo association’s board of trustees. The board had sent all the homeowners a combined bill of $750,000 for a faulty sprinkler system. 3. Walter Bayliss, the former License Commission chairman in Lowell who was recently ousted from his post, has dropped his lawsuit against the city. The terms of the settlement were not made disclosed, although Bayliss has said he wants the settlement terms to be known publicly.
Trending Legal Topics: Appeals against trial court decisions must be filed in Boston, with the Massachusetts Appeals Court. This court sometimes holds special sessions in other counties outside Boston to hear oral arguments. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is the court of last resort. A federal case in the state has to be filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and bankruptcy petitions are taken up by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Maryland. Federal appeals in Massachusetts go to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals. |