Katharine I. Doyle

Associate
E-mail: kdoyle@k-plaw.com
Phone: 617.556.0007
Practice Areas: General Municipal, Land Use, Litigation

Experience

Attorney Kay Doyle has over ten years of municipal law experience.  She advises clients on all aspects of general municipal law, including town meetings, elections, licensing, municipal charters and by-laws, conflict of interests, public records, the Open Meeting Law, and municipal finance.  Additionally, Attorney Doyle represents client in land use matters and civil rights litigation.  In this capacity, she provides counsel to municipalities on zoning, subdivision, environmental, federal and state civil rights, and telecommunications law.

Representative Matters

• Walsh v. Town of Lakeville, 431 F. Supp.2d 134 (D. Mass. 2006). Court granted summary judgment to all defendants on a complicated claim of a violation of a property owner’s right to equal protection of the law, as well as a defamation claim against a member of the Board of Selectmen.
  
• Amberwood Development Corp. v. Board of Appeals of Boxford, 65 Mass. App. Ct 205 (2005). Successfully argued to the Appeals Court that a property owner cannot pursue a G.L. c.240 §14A challenge to a local by-law or ordinance without demonstrating that the application of such by-law or ordinance caused harm to the owner’s property interests.  
• Tanner v. Board of Appeals of Boxford, 61 Mass.App.Ct. 647  (2004).  The Appeals Court affirmed the decision of the Land Court that a veterinary hospital was not protected by the agricultural exemption of G.L. c.40A §3 merely because the use of a veterinary hospital involves the caring for animals. 
  
• Nextel Communications of Mid-Atlantic, Inc. v. Town of Hanson, 311 F.Supp.2d 142 (D. Mass. 2004).  Successfully defeated an attempt by a telecommunications company to argue that the denial of a building permit for a telecommunications facility that did not comply with the requirements the Massachusetts Building Code violated an earlier Agreement for Judgment with regard to a denial of zoning relief for the same facility, as well as the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996.