District Court, D. Massachusetts July 26, 2017, CIVIL ACTION NO. 12-10291-WGY (Smith v. City of Boston)

MEMORANDUM & ORDER

YOUNG, D.J.

I. INTRODUCTION

To understand why the Court here revisits and reconsiders rulings it made earlier in Smith v. City of Boston, 144 F.Supp.3d 177 (D. Mass. 2015), it is necessary to understand the timing of my decision in Smith and. how that decision may or may not conform to two other related yet distinct decisions — Judge O’Toole’s thorough opinion in Lopez v.