The Massachusetts Appeals Court today rejected a lawsuit by three women who said they were groped by the disgraced ex-state Senator that would have forced him to keep his distance from all women in Massachusetts.

The court ruled that the provision of the state civil-rights law that was also used to limit anti-abortion protesters near abortion clinics can only be enforced by the state's attorney general and that the three women could ask for no more than an injunction to keep Marzilli away from them, not every woman in the state. And even then, the court ruled, there is no proof Marzilli has attempted to assault or harass them since his arrest in 2008, so there is no longer a reason for an injunction.

The women could appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court.

Complete decision.

Be the hit of the roast with Paul McMorrow and Lissa Harris's evil creation:

Of course, it helps to remember that state Rep. Marty Walsh of Dorchester is who grabby ex-Senator Jim Marzilli first identified himself as when he found a little bit too much to like about Lowell.

You're really embarrassing yourself and getting the rest of us annoyed.

PolitickerMA has the scoop on Marzilli's post-Germany resignation today. No word on how close Dianne Wilkerson is to cleaning out her office.

Remember that groping case the Middlesex County DA's office wouldn't bring against Jim Marzilli for lack of evidence before he got charged with finding just a bit too much to like about Lowell? He's now been charged after all.

A Middlesex County grand jury today indicted Arlington state Sen. James Marzilli on charges he went after four women in Lowell on June 3, the Middlesex County DA's office says.

Marzilli is formally charged with "annoying and accosting" three women and indecent assault and battery, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and annoying and accosting a person of the opposite sex in connection with a fourth woman.

Prosecutors allege he complimented one woman on her butt, asked another if she were wearing underwear and started coming at the third. In an attempt to get him away, prosecutors say, the first woman yelled "Listen, take $20, go up to Merrimack Street after 5 p.m. and get yourself a hooker" at him. Prosecutors claim he then sat on a bench next to the fourth woman and attempted to "grab her in a sexual manner," at which point she screamed and fled into a nearby building, outside of which Marzilli then allegedly began waiting for her. When police arrived, he attempted to flee, prosecutors say.

More details from the DA's office.

The Herald reports that's what the alleged woman-chasing state senator's being treated for at McLean. Dan Kennedy wonders why Marzilli's lawyer still has a compulsion to attack people.

As Dan Kennedy notes, Howie Carr's column on Jim Marzilli today is your basic called-in faux-outrage piece about a pol in trouble. But read down to the last two sentences - man, Howie loves working at 'RKO.

Doesn't say anything about resigning immediately, however.

Jim Marzilli of Arlington was arrested today in Lowell, charged with attempted indecent assault and battery on a woman on a downtown street - in broad daylight.

Earlier:
No charges against Arlington state senator.