In 1998, some residents sued to have the site restored as parkland, citing the failure of the legislature to approve the transfer.

But in 1998, residents and environmentalists sued, arguing that many of the mines were illegal under laws protecting the nation's water supplies.

By that time some residents and groups had sued to block Stop & Shop, which the village trustees approved in December 1994.

After the planning board approved the plans, neighboring residents individually sued to stop the construction claiming that they owned a portion of the land.

That plan stalled, though, when residents successfully sued to stop the village from turning the building over to a private developer.

About a dozen residents sued the Dormitory Authority.

Two months later, several residents sued to stop the condemnation, and about a year later, the city dropped its plan to seize the property.

The city then turned to St. John's, but residents and civic groups in the neighborhood also sued to block the stadium.

Unused to such meddling, the bureaucrats refused to share their analyses, so the residents sued.

But when the board recently approved a revised plan to build instead a single large retail store, residents speculated about a Kmart and sued the town.