Boston, MA — March 13, 2024 — Boston Dog Lawyers, a law office specializing in pet law has achieved an important victory in the case of Lyman v. Lanser.

"There has been an exorbitant amount of incidents not just here in Dedham but all across the state with dogs at the hands of dog walkers," Goldman said. "We have had dogs go missing. We have a dog that’s still missing after two months. We’ve had dogs injured. We’ve had dog fights. We've had people bitten."

On Wednesday night, Goldman worked with Boston Dog Lawyers to hold an information forum for dogwalkers and pet owners, addressing best practices and responsibilities that walkers may not be aware of.

Judge Shannon Frison granted Lyman a preliminary injunction, which included a provision requiring the parties to exchange Teddy Bear every two weeks.

But on Dec. 19, Appeals Court Judge Marguerite T. Grant decided that Frison had “abused her discretion and erred as a matter of law.” Grant vacated the part of the order that required the parties to alternate possession of the dog.

Jeremy M. CohenLyman’s lawyer, Jeremy M. Cohen of the Swampscott-based firm Boston Dog Lawyers, says it was disheartening to see Grant reach for the child custody analogy, given how strenuously he sought to avoid drawing that parallel.

Cohen knows that he would likely get nowhere trying to place canines on the same level as human beings.

“We’re not trying to create a new legal status [for dogs],” he says.

Boston Dog Lawyers atty. Jeremy Cohen, who represents Lexi’s owners Joe Grant and Anna Costa, informed the Villager that Lexi is a Rottweiler mixed with two other breeds.

An emotional public hearing about the attack occurred in the Al Merritt Media and Cultural Center on June 9. Dolan served as the hearing authority for the case. Assistant Town Administrator Bob Curtin, Town Counsel Tom Mullen, Interim Police Chief Nick Secatore and Animal Control Officer David Crockett also attended the public hearing. The attendees who spoke were sworn in before giving testimony, and Cohen was prohibited from cross-examining witnesses.

Mary Cayer, 52, of Market Street, was scheduled to be arraigned on a larceny over $1,200 charge during Thursday’s appearance in court. But her attorney, Jeremy Cohen, filed a motion to send the matter before a clerk magistrate within the court, saying there was not enough probable cause on the charge to arraign his client.

The town ruled that Tucker — the 2-year-old golden retriever that bit Sunset Road resident Emily Spinucci on May 5 — is a dangerous dog in a written notice released Tuesday.

This decision, however, does not align with Spinucci’s original request to have Tucker brought back from Atlanta to be euthanized.

The town ordered that Tucker be confined to the Sunset Road home of his former owner, David Horrigan, behind either a locked pen or a fully-enclosed fence in the event that the dog ever returns to Nahant from Atlanta. The ruling would also require Horrigan to install an electric fence around the perimeter of his property and have Tucker neutered.

A Nahant woman is calling for a two-year-old golden retriever to be extradited back to Massachusetts to be euthanized after he was sent away for biting her while doing his "business."

The golden retriever named Tucker's life is now in the hands of Nahant's dog officer after a dangerousness hearing on Thursday.

Emily Spinucci, of Nahant, said she was trying to help her neighbor, David Horrigan, after his golden retriever, Tucker, got loose. Spinochi said she saw the dog when he was squatting to do his business and when she grabbed his collar he bit her several times.

Horrigan’s attorney, Jeremy Cohen, echoed Horrigan’s remarks, adding that Spinucci’s request to essentially extradite a golden retriever, in his opinion, was completely unwarranted for an animal bite. “This is where delusion sets in — the idea that she wants to see the dog hung in town square, or she wants to see blood in the center of town, that’s not how you resolve these cases, it’s just not,” Cohen said.

Jeremy Cohen, a lawyer for the family, said Friday that the family has kept the chickens because the city has not come to take them away. Asked what would happen if the court order is approved, he said: “If it comes to that I have a feeling my clients would try to facilitate something rather than have a whole scene at the house with law enforcement.”

"What she went through was being called to say, 'Hey, something happened to Ollie. Why don't you come pick him up.' And realizing when she got there that he had over 400 bites on his body," said Jeremy Cohen, an attorney at Boston Dog Lawyers.