Comments on: New Massachusetts restraining-order law https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/04/new-massachusetts-restraining-order-law/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:47:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Smart Dude https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/04/new-massachusetts-restraining-order-law/comment-page-1/#comment-118424 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:47:32 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22497#comment-118424 This idiot Massachusetts restraining-order change is the very definition of “overlawyered.” Who are the fools who put this steaming pile of colossally bad legislation out?

It should be renamed the Crazy Neighbor Empowerment Act,

Or perhaps the Old Fart Get Off My Lawn You Kids Act

]]> By: Richard Nieporent https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/04/new-massachusetts-restraining-order-law/comment-page-1/#comment-118404 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:37:39 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22497#comment-118404 Pressure to pass the law increased in 2003, after a Middlesex jury convicted Steven Caruso of Medford of using a package bomb to kill Sandra Berfield, a 32-year-old waitress in Everett who repeatedly rebuffed his romantic advances.

If only the law had been in effect in 2003, it would have stopped him from killing her. Obviously the law against murder was not enough of a deterrent.

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