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Know Your Rights: Renting An Apartment In Greater Boston If you're apartment hunting, preparing to move or even signing another lease for your current apartment, here's what you should know about renting in and around Boston, from negotiating with your landlord to getting your security deposit back.

"James and Daniel Lampke, a father-and-son pair of Boston-based attorneys who practice municipal law, contend the limitations in the charter would apply to any acting mayor, including someone in Janey’s situation."

Boston could soon have an acting mayor. What will that mean? - The Boston Globe Welcome to the granular and wonky world of Boston city charter legalese.

Under the qualified immunity doctrine, a police officer can be shielded from liability if at the time they acted:
They were performing a "discretionary" function
They did not violate a clearly-established constitutional or statutory right that a reasonable person in their position would have known
This means if the officer reasonably believed their actions were lawful based on the information available to them at the time, they won't be held liable in a Section 1983 case.

Court Perspectives: Police Misconduct, Section 1983, and Civil Rights Police have broad power to carry out their duties to protect and serve. However, in far too many cases, police officers overstep those powers and...