An lawyer for the final president of the defunct Mount Ida Faculty in Newton is asking that an effort to have him eliminated as a trustee of trusts price a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of {dollars} be argued exterior of the general public eye.
It’s only one side of the really complicated case of the trusts left by the late Rosalie Okay. Stahl. The newest listening to of the years-long dispute was attended Thursday by almost a dozen attorneys representing an array of pursuits — together with two attorneys from the state Legal professional Basic’s workplace.
It’s a case so complicated and multi-faceted that Middlesex County probate Decide Edward F. Donnelly started the morning’s listening to with a joke asking for a second of silence for the “forests of trees killed” to supply copies of latest filings.
Attorneys representing one of many two Stahl daughters, Jolie Stahl, issued an emergency movement to have trustee Barry Brown, the previous Mount Ida Faculty president, faraway from the Stahl belief attributable to what lawyer Jeff Robbins referred to as “egregious breaches of fiduciary duty.”
“Barry Brown committed more breaches of fiduciary duty than there are sands on the seashore,” Robbins mentioned in courtroom. “You could write a law school exam for how many breaches of fiduciary duty were found in this record.”
That movement was scheduled to be argued on the Thursday listening to in Middlesex County probate courtroom, however Brown’s lawyer Howard Cooper mentioned that he was blindsided by the media consideration, which was represented by one Herald reporter and one Herald photographer and requested that the decide take into account listening to the arguments in his chambers and away from public view.
“Not knowing that this would happen today, I was not prepared,” Cooper mentioned, to argue the case earlier than the media. He requested for time to file a movement requesting such a change.
Brown was the eighth and final president of Mount Ida Faculty. He began the job on July 1, 2012, following a profession at Suffolk College Regulation Faculty, together with as provost and in addition appearing president from 2010 to 2011. Mount Ida Faculty closed in 2018 and the campus has since been acquired by UMass Amherst and operated because the college’s “Mount Ida Campus.”
Cooper and a lawyer for the opposite Stahl daughter, Robyn, mentioned that Jolie Stahl’s authorized crew repeatedly makes “outrageous allegations” towards Brown.
Cooper additionally accused Robbins, a lawyer for the Herald, of alerting the press to the general public proceedings.
“I’ve been a judge since 1998. This is the third time I’ve had press in the courtroom that I know of and the first time was the day marriage licenses were issued to same sex couples,” Decide Donnelly mentioned. “That’s how long ago that was.”
Donnelly set the subsequent assembly date of April 10 at 9 a.m. for Cooper to argue his movement, however warned that there was little likelihood he would decide that day, so the precise movement to take away Brown will look ahead to a later date.
