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Honorable Robert B. Foster


Title Associate Justice
   
Office Mailing Address Land Court
Three Pemberton Square
Boston, MA 02108
   
Secretary/Clerk
Telephone Number
(617) 788-7470
   
Date of Birth/Place of Birth May 4, 1957, Neptune, N.J.
   
Year of Appointment/Governor 2011 - Governor Deval Patrick
   
Prior Judicial Offices (Dates):  
   
Prior Public Service Planning Board, Town of Natick, 2001-2011
Town Meeting, Town of Natick, 2009-2011
   
Prior Professional Employment Clerk to Hon. Herbert P. Wilkins, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1992-1993
Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster, P.C. 1993-2011
   
Education Haverford College, B.A., 1979
Harvard Law School, J.D. magna cum laude, 1992
   
Civic Activities Board of Directors, Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation, 2001-2011 (Chair, 2007-2009)
Access to Justice Commission of the Supreme Judicial Court, 2005-2007, 2010-2011
Massachusetts IOLTA Committee, 2011
   
Professional Organization
Memberships
American Bar Association (Chair, Land Use Committee of the State and Local Government Law Section, 2005-2008)
Boston Bar Association (Co-Chair, Real Estate Section, 2004-2006, Co-Chair, Pro Bono Committee of the Real Estate Section, 2002-2004, 2008-2011, Co-Chair, Delivery of Legal Services Section, 1998-2001)
   
Publications

“Like a Martian Machine: Recent Developments in Land Use Regulation of Cellular Telecommunications Facilities under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” in At the Cutting Edge 2011: Land Use Law from The Urban Lawyer (Dwight H. Merriam, ed. 2011) and 43 The Urban Lawyer 789 (2011)

“Two Birds with One Stone: Using Class Action Residual Funds to Support Access to Justice,” Massachusetts Lawyers Journal (2011)

“The Better Part of Valor Is Co-Location: Recent Developments in Judicial Review of Land Use Regulation of Cellular Telecommunications Facilities under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” in At the Cutting Edge 2010: Land Use Law from The Urban Lawyer (Dwight H. Merriam, ed. 2011) and 43 The Urban Lawyer 595 (2010)

“What the Meaning of ‘May’ May Be: Recent Developments in Judicial Review of Land Use Regulation of Cellular Telecommunications Facilities under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” 41 The Urban Lawyer 501 (2009)

“A Novel Application: Recent Developments in Judicial Review of Land Use Regulation of Cellular Telecommunications Facilities under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” in At the Cutting Edge: Land Use Law from The Urban Lawyer (Dwight H. Merriam, ed. 2009) and 40 The Urban Lawyer 521 (2008)

“Alice in Towerland: Judicial Review of Land Use Decisions on Cellular Telecommunications Facilities under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” 39 The Urban Lawyer 633 (2007) (with Mitchell A. Carell)

“Disguised as a Tree: Judicial Review of Land Use Decisions on Cellular Telecommunications Facilities under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” 38 The Urban Lawyer 657 (2006) (with Mitchell A. Carell)

“Tell Me What You Really Think: Judicial Review of Land Use Decisions on Cellular Telecommunications Facilities under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” 37 The Urban Lawyer 551 (2006) (with Mitchell A. Carell)

“Delaney’s Semi-Scientific Test and Other Adventures in Cellular Networks and Land Use Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” 36 The Urban Lawyer 529 (2004) (with Mitchell A. Carrell)

“Patchwork Quilts, Bumblebees and Scales: Cellular Networks and Land Use Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” 36 The Urban Lawyer 399 (2004) (with Mitchell A. Carrell)

“Sprouting Towers: Resolving the Struggle Between Cellular Towers and Nature Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” 34 The Urban Lawyer 901 (2002) (with Mitchell A. Carrell)

“Railroad Tracks by Walden Pond: The Ongoing Struggle Between Towns And Providers Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” 33 The Urban Lawyer 781 (2001) (with Mitchell A. Carrell)

“Twin Towers: The Developing Split in Interpretation of Facility Siting Law Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” 32 The Urban Lawyer 839 (2000) (with Mitchell A. Carrell)

“Towers of Babble: The Continuing Struggle over Wireless Siting Issues under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” in Hot Topics in Land Use Law: From the Comprehensive Plan to Del Monte Dunes (Patricia E. Salkin & Robert H. Freilich, eds. 2000) and 31 The Urban Lawyer 849 (2000) (with Mitchell A. Carrell)

“An Analysis of Facility Siting Issues under the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” in Hot Topics in Land Use Law: From the Comprehensive Plan to Del Monte Dunes (Patricia E. Salkin & Robert H. Freilich, eds. 2000) (with Robert A. Heverly and Donna J. Pugh)

   
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