Civil rights – Free speech – Select board of Nantucket

Civil rights – Free speech – Select board of Nantucket

Where a Superior Court judge dismissed a complaint filed by two plaintiffs following a contentious meeting of the select board of Nantucket, a remand must be ordered with respect to a Massachusetts Civil Rights Act claim asserted by one of the plaintiffs, as the record is sufficient to create a material dispute of fact over whether the defendant town manager attempted to interfere with that plaintiff’s free speech rights.