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Case Documents
This page provides a chronological record of the important public filings and related court materials in MacMillan v. Kingsley Montessori School, Massachusetts Superior Court Civil Action No. 2584CV02767. Minor procedural filings that do not materially affect the public understanding of the case have been omitted so this archive can remain focused on the filings most relevant to the public record.
Document number six is not posted because it was impounded by order of the Court. In Massachusetts court practice, an impounded document is withheld from public access by court order, often to protect confidential or sensitive information. In this case, MacMillan’s Emergency Motion to Impound was allowed and her "Statement of Confidential Context Regarding Minor Children and Administrative Response" was impounded.
Some posted documents also contain redactions made by MacMillan before publication on this website. These additional redactions were not ordered by the Court. They were made to protect the privacy of non-party minor children and families where MacMillan believed the public record contained identifying or sensitive information that should not be amplified online.
1. October 7, 2025 — MacMillan files her original lawsuit against Kingsley Montessori School [paper 2].
2. October 23, 2025 — The parties file a joint motion to allow Kingsley more time to respond to the lawsuit while settlement negotiations proceed [paper 4].
3. November 14, 2025 — The parties file a second joint motion to allow Kingsley more time to respond to the lawsuit while settlement negotiations continue [paper 6].
4. December 1, 2025 — The parties do not reach a settlement. MacMillan voluntarily dismisses the individual board members, explains her reason for naming and serving them individually, and alleges that during her tenure, Kingsley teachers had no direct means of communicating concerns to the board. MacMillan contends that this structure gave administration control over what information reached the board and disconnected board members from employees who were working directly in classrooms and witnessing day-to-day student safety concerns [paper 7].
5. December 15, 2025 — MacMillan files a Motion to Impound so she can provide the Court with confidential context about the bullying allegations and administrative response while asking the Court to protect non-party minor children and families from public exposure [paper 39].
Temporarily unavailable: This motion has been removed because the appellate docket/assembly record appears to identify it among impounded materials. This status appears irregular under standard Massachusetts impoundment practice because motions to impound are generally public unless separately ordered impounded, and I have not located a separate order expressly impounding this motion. The endorsement I have reviewed appears to impound the separate confidential statement, not the motion itself. For reference, see Massachusetts Uniform Rules on Impoundment Procedure, Rule 2 and Rule 8.
6. December 15, 2025 — In this document, MacMillan offers the Court sensitive information about the nature of the bullying and Kingsley Montessori School’s administrative response [paper 40].
To protect confidentiality, the Statement is not available for public viewing. The judge ordered this impoundment.
To protect confidentiality, the Statement is not available for public viewing. The judge ordered this impoundment.
7. December 15, 2025 — Kingsley Montessori School asks the Court to strike MacMillan’s confidential statement from the record [paper 45/46] .
To protect student and family confidentiality, MacMillan redacted this document before posting it to this website. The Court did not order these specific redactions.
8. December 15, 2025 — MacMillan files an opposition asking the Court not to strike her confidential statement [paper 42].
9. December 15, 2025 — MacMillan files an Emergency Motion to Impound because she contends that language in the Defendants’ Motion to Strike, listed above as Document 7, placed information on the public record that could jeopardize the confidentiality of non-party minor children and their families [paper 44] .
In the Emergency Motion to Impound, listed here as Document 9, MacMillan asked the Court to require redactions to the Defendants’ Motion to Strike. Because the Emergency Motion had to identify the specific language MacMillan sought to protect, MacMillan also asked the Court to require redactions to the Emergency Motion itself.
The redactions currently shown in Documents 7 (paper 45/46), 9 (paper 44), and 17 (paper 63) reflect the redactions MacMillan asked the Court to require. The Court did not order those specific redactions and allowed the information MacMillan sought to protect to remain on the public record.
To protect student and family confidentiality, MacMillan made those redactions before posting both documents to this website.
To protect student and family confidentiality, MacMillan redacted this document before posting it to this website. The Court did not order these specific redactions.
10. December 15, 2025 — The Court allows MacMillan’s Statement of Confidential Context, listed above as Document 6, to be impounded, stating that it “contains highly sensitive matters which should be unavailable for public view.”
11. December 15, 2025 — The Court also allows the Defendants’ cross-motion to strike MacMillan’s Statement of Confidential Context.
The Court allows the Defendants’ cross-motion to strike MacMillan’s Statement of Confidential Context (paper 40), listed above as Document 6, stating that it is not “a complaint, answer, motion, nor any appropriate filing(s) . . . and is immaterial.” This means the document was protected from public view, but was also struck as a filing in the case.
12. January 12, 2026 — Kingsley Montessori School files a Motion to Dismiss the full case. A motion to dismiss asks the Court to end a case based on legal arguments before the case proceeds further (paper 51).
13. January 12, 2026 — MacMillan files an opposition asking the Court to deny Kingsley Montessori School’s Motion to Dismiss. In this filing, MacMillan argues that the case should not be dismissed and should be allowed to proceed (paper 52) .
14. March 17, 2026 — The Court holds a hearing on Kingsley Montessori School’s Motion to Dismiss. The linked transcript shows the arguments presented to the Court before the Motion to Dismiss was allowed.
15. March 23, 2026 — The Court allows Kingsley Montessori School’s Motion to Dismiss, dismissing the case at the trial-court level. MacMillan contends that the ruling creates a dangerous precedent for Massachusetts private schools because it may be used to argue that teachers can be terminated after reporting bullying or student safety concerns without meaningful legal accountability (paper 60).
16. April 9, 2026 — MacMillan files a Notice of Appeal (paper 62).
17. April 16, 2026 — MacMillan files a second EMERGENCY Motion to Impound, seeking to protect minor children and their families through redacting sensitive topics found in Document numbers 7 (paper 40) and 9 (paper 44) above (this second emergency motion to impound is paper number 63).
17. April 16, 2026 — The judge denies MacMillan's second EMERGENCY motion to impound (paper 64).
18. July 3, 2026 — MacMillan files her Appeals Court Documenting Statement
Continue exploring the case through the narrative pages below. The Case Overview explains the core allegations and why the appeal matters, the Timeline places the filings in chronological context, and Key Quotes highlights the most important excerpts from the public record.
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