Judge rejects injunction sought by alleged Marzilli victims
By Lisa Redmond, lredmond@lowellsun.com
Article Last Updated: 08/19/2008 09:11:13 AM EDT
WOBURN -- A Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of state Sen. J. James Marzilli by denying a novel civil rights injunction sought by three women who claimed the embattled Democrat violated their civil rights by sexually assaulting them and making lewd comments to them.
In a decision issued Friday, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Sandra Hamlin denied attorney Wendy Murphy's request for an injunction on behalf of her three clients. Murphy argued at a July 31 hearing that Marzilli should be barred from "assaulting, threatening, intimidating, coercing, following or harassing his alleged victims or any other women," according to the lawsuit.
Murphy described this type of civil-rights injunction as a "novel legal proceeding." She states in the lawsuit that a similar injunction was obtained by former Attorney General Scott Harshbarger in 1994 against Salah Aboulaz, in a case involving four female victims.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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