Abstract
This article chronicles some of the events that occurred when a state and a federal court attempted to disengage from active jurisdiction over two Boston public systems: the public schools and the Boston Housing Authority (BHA). It makes three proposals which, if enacted, would help to keep the courts out of day-to-day management of municipal operations. It also makes some generalizations about the court-agency interplay which are relevant to the postremedial phase of institutional reform litigation. The author uses the term restorative law to describe this court-controlled process of returning power to the executive branch.
Recommended Citation
Murninghan, Marcy M.
(1985)
"Getting Power Back: Court Restoration of Executive Authority in Boston City Government,"
New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 1:
Iss.
2, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol1/iss2/9
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