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.

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.

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.

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.

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.