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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Abdeljaber v. Gaddoura, 60 Mass. App. Ct. 294 (2004)

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Abdeljaber v. Gaddoura, 60 Mass. App. Ct. 294 (2004)
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Abdeljaber v. Gaddoura, 60 Mass. App. Ct. 294 (2004)
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Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date
2004-01-07

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We also note that our research has disclosed no official source of the above-cited rule. While we need not decide the point, it is unclear whether the cited rule is in fact an official rule of the Housing Court Department and currently in force. See St. 1971, c. 843 (inserting G. L. c. 185A, which established the Housing Court of the City of Boston as the first housing court in the Commonwealth, with rulemaking power under G. L. c. 185A, § 7); St. 1973, c. 591 (inserting G. L. c. 185B, which established a second housing court, the Housing Court of the County of Hampden, with rulemaking power under G. L. c. 185B, § 7); St. 1978, c. 478, §§ 91, 92 (repealing G. L. c. 185A and G. L. c. 185B as part of the trial court reorganization, and inserting G. L. c. 185C, which established the Housing Court Department, comprising divisions for Hampden County and for Boston, and with rulemaking at the departmental level under G. L. c. 185C, § 7); St. 2000, c. 159, § 244 (amending G. L. c. 185C to abolish the Hampden County division of the Housing Court department and to establish a western division including Berkshire, *298Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties). Thus, it seems that the putative “Rule 5,” as appearing in the above-cited unofficial sources, may be a remnant of rules of the Housing Court for Hampden County existing before the 1978 creation of the Housing Court Department.