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DEPOSIT PHOTOS A party intending to use a series of aerial Google Earth images had ways to authenticate those images, even absent testimony from an agent of Google or its affiliates, a Land Court judge has ruled, denying a motion in limine to exclude all such photographs from evidence at trial. In support of his

Tess C. Edwards is a Lawyer at Pierce Atwood LLP. Tess Edwards is an associate in Pierce Atwood’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Attorneys on both sides of the Massachusetts Land Court lawsuit by the Berkshire Natural Resources Council against the town’s zoning board agree that mediation could begin within a few weeks.

Attorneys on both sides of the Massachusetts Land Court lawsuit by the Berkshire Natural Resources Council against the town’s zoning board agree that mediation could begin within a few weeks.

The environmental group’s Hollow Fields Preserve in Richmond remains in legal limbo until the next Land Court date after Labor Day.

The 660-acre Hollow Fields preserve in Richmond remains under court restrictions, and neighbors question whether an access road is public or private.

As the litigation continues over public use of the preserve at Hollow Fields, the annual town meeting could resolve a multiyear dispute over organized events that neighbors find disturbing.

Against the backdrop of a court case involving use of the Berkshire Natural Resources Council’s Hollow Fields preserve, town voters could make a crucial decision in May.

The state’s land court delays ruling on a lawsuit by the Berkshire Natural Resources Council against the Richmond Zoning Board and a neighborhood group on whether the council must seek