Ayala v. Boston Housing Authority

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “[a] housing authority is a ‘public employer’ within the meaning of G. L. c. 258, § 1”
• minor children of a section 8 tenant are third party beneficiaries of HAP contracts to the extent the contract deals with lead paint hazards
• plaintiffs were intended beneficiaries of contracts to extent they dealt with dangers of lead paint, but not to all aspects of contracts
• tenants allowed to maintain action as intended beneficiaries of a contract between the Boston Housing Authority and the United States Housing and Urban Development Agency
• “It would be bizarre indeed to conclude that the plaintiffs, the quality of whose abode was the very subject of the contract, were somehow not intended beneficiaries under the contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).