Case Name: Janice W. Stevenson vs. Cafasso Properties, LLC, & others
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 2008-04-22
Citations: 451 Mass. 1003
Docket Number: 
Parties: Janice W. Stevenson vs. Cafasso Properties, LLC, & others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 451
Pages: 1003–1004

Head Matter:
Janice W. Stevenson vs. Cafasso Properties, LLC, & others.
April 22, 2008.
Supreme Judicial Court,
Janice W. Stevenson, pro se.
building inspector of Cambridge, inspectional services department of Cambridge, and Windsor Realty.

Opinion:
In the District Court, the petitioner was the defendant in a summary process action. She counterclaimed against her landlord and purported to file in the same action a complaint against various third parties; that complaint was entered as a separate civil action. In the summary process action, the petitioner moved unsuccessfully to compel discovery from her landlord and from the third parties. She then sought relief in the county court from the adverse discovery ruling, to no avail. (She raised other issues in her petition that she does not press on appeal.) The single justice neither abused her discretion nor otherwise erred in declining to exercise the court's extraordinary superintendence power — discovery matters of the sort the petitioner raises here can be addressed adequately on direct appeal.
Judgment affirmed.