Margaret Marshall

A Cape Wind Dissent by Justice Marshall

Margaret Marshall |

Editor’s Note: A divided Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this week ruled, four to two, that the State Energy Facilities Siting Board had the power to overrule the Cape Cod Commission and grant a so-called super permit to the developers of the controversial Cape Wind project. Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall wrote a dissenting opinion, alongside Associate Justice Francis X. Spina. What follows is an excerpted text of the dissent by Chief Justice Marshall. A longtime seasonal resdent of West Tisbury, the chief justice will retire this fall.

 

 

 

A Cape Wind Dissent by Justice Marshall

Margaret Marshall

Editor’s Note: A divided Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this week ruled, four to two, that the State Energy Facilities Siting Board had the power to overrule the Cape Cod Commission and grant a so-called super permit to the developers of the controversial Cape Wind project. Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall wrote a dissenting opinion, alongside Associate Justice Francis X. Spina. What follows is an excerpted text of the dissent by Chief Justice Marshall. A longtime seasonal resdent of West Tisbury, the chief justice will retire this fall.

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