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  • Woe v. Sex Offender Registry Bd.

    482 Mass. 1108 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 31, 2019

    No. 496501 v. Sex Offender Registry Bd., 482 Mass. 643 (2019).

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  • Boutillette v. Robbins

    338 Mass. 195 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 5, 1958

    Commonwealth v. Jenkins, 10 Gray, 485 , 488. Griffin v. Boston, 188 Mass. 475, 477 . Commonwealth v. Tucker, 189 Mass. 457, 479-485 . Brown v. Brown, 208 Mass. 290, 292-293 . Commonwealth v. … Boston, supra, pp. 476-477, Kelley v. Boston, 296 Mass. 463, 465 , and Commonwealth v. Giacomazza, 311 Mass. 456, 469 . The point urged by the defendants was considered at length in Commonwealth v.

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  • Boston Rent Equity Board v. Dime Savings Bank of New York, FSB

    415 Mass. 48 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 16, 1993

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  • Wilson v. Mitchell-Woodbury Co.

    214 Mass. 514 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 23, 1913

    To the same effect are Kimmerle v. Farr, 111 C. C. A. 27, 32 , First National Bank of Philadelphia v. Abbott, 91 C. C. A. 538, 545 , and our own decisions, Atherton v. Emerson, 199 Mass. 199, 211 , Brown v. … See Hewitt v. Boston Straw Board Co., ante, 260. 3.

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  • Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. City of Malden

    321 Mass. 46 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 13, 1947

    Brown v. Grow, 249 Mass. 495, 499 . American Fireworks Co. of Massachusetts v. Morrison, 300 Mass. 531, 533 . … Where, as here, the facts are undisputed, the question whether the city has seasonably filed its appeal with the board is one of law. Lewis v. Worrell, 185 Mass. 572 . Orr v. Keith, 245 Mass. 35 . Lincoln v.

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  • Smith v. Director of the Division of Employment Security

    376 Mass. 563 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 6, 1978

    The basic facts brought out at the board of review hearing are the following. … Brown, 375 Mass. 502, 505-506 (1978). 2 *568 We cannot determine at this juncture whether the evidence of arbitrary or capricious application of the rule was or was not believed by the review examiner, but in any event the

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  • Commonwealth v. Maletsky

    203 Mass. 241 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 23, 1909

    No rules are provided for the exercise of his judgment; there is no appeal from his determination to the city council or the board of control (St. 1908, c. 659), the department of the city government which was entrusted by … It was said by Brown, J., in Austin v. Tennessee, 179 U. S. 343 : “Although it was held in Barbier v. Connolly, 113 U. S. 27 , and Soon Hing v. Crowley, 113 U.

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  • Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette Inc. v. Board of Assessors of Attleboro

    476 Mass. 690 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 22, 2017

    New England Forestry Found., Inc. v. Assessors of Hawley, 468 Mass. 138, 148-149 (2014), citing Milton v. Ladd, 348 Mass. 762, 765 (1965). … We give weight to the board's interpretation of tax statutes, however, because the "board is an agency charged with administering the tax law and has 'expertise in tax matters.'" AA Transp. Co. v.

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  • Moroni v. Brawders

    317 Mass. 48 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 14, 1944

    But a presumption is not evidence (Brown v. Henderson, 285 Mass. 192, 195, 196 ; Commonwealth v. Clark, 292 Mass. 409, 415 ; Del Vecchio v. Bowers, 296 U. S. 280, 286 ; New York Life Ins. Co. v. Gamer, 303 U. … Jones v. McLeod, 103 Mass. 58 . Goddard v. Rawson, 130 Mass. 97, 99 . National Vinegar Co. v. Jaffe, 261 Mass. 86, 88 . Janevesian v. Esa, 274 Mass. 231, 233 . Dondis v. Lash, 277 Mass. 477, 485 . Hunt Drug Co. v.

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  • Juozapaitis's Case

    335 Mass. 137 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 6, 1956

    In any event he was not harmed because the ruling of the board was made without prejudice. The board was not in error. Bursey’s Case, 325 Mass. 702 . … The decree must be reversed and the case remanded to *141 the Industrial Accident Board for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. Nelson’s Case, 217 Mass. 467 . Brown’s Case, 228 Mass. 31, 38 .

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  • John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Health, Welfare & Retirement Trust Funds Board

    341 Mass. 206 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 10, 1960

    Co. v. Health, Welfare & Retirement Trust Funds Bd., ante, p. 194.

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  • Spoor v. Spooner

    53 Mass. 281 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 15, 1847

    Tindal v. Brown, 1 T. R. 168. So also as to contracts where something is to be performed and the contract is silent on the subject, what is a reasonable time for its performance is held to be matter of law. Attwood v. … Hill v. Hobart, 4 Shepley, 164. Ellis v. Thompson, 3 Mees. & Welsb. 445.

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  • Meunier's Case

    319 Mass. 421 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 9, 1946

    Co. v. Commissioner of Insurance, 298 Mass. 161 . Boott Mills v. Board of Conciliation & Arbitration, 311 Mass. 223 . Burns v. Thomas Cook & Sons, Inc. 317 Mass. 398 . Interstate Commerce Commission v. … Ltd. v. Edwards, [1933] A. C. 28. See Richardson v. Redpath, Brown & Co. Ltd. [1944] A. C. 62.

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  • Elwell v. Town of Athol

    325 Mass. 41 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 14, 1949

    See Brown v. Winthrop, 275 Mass. 43 ; DePrizio v. F. W. Woolworth Co. 291 Mass. 143 ; Pecorelli v. Worcester, 307 Mass. 425 . Compare Cameron v. Somerville, 285 Mass. 307 . … Slack v. Boston, 275 Mass. 187 . Beckwith v. Boylston, 284 Mass. 279 . Barton v. Boston, 301 Mass. 492 . Mello v. Peabody, 305 Mass. 373 . Cox v.

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  • Registrar of Motor Vehicles v. Board of Appeal on Motor Vehicle Liability Policies & Bonds

    382 Mass. 580 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 13, 1981

    Board of Educ. v. Assessor of Worcester, 368 Mass. 511, 513 (1975), quoting from Industrial Fin. Corp. v. State Tax Comm’n, 367 Mass. 360, 364 (1975). … See Almeida v. Lucey, 372 *590 F. Supp. 109 (D. Mass), aff'd 419 U.S. 806 (1974). See also, e.g., Rader v. Dothard, 434 F. Supp. 688 (N.D. Ala. 1977); Scott v. Hill, 407 F. Supp. 301 (E.D. Va. 1976). Compare Pollard v.

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  • Robertson v. Commissioner of Civil Service

    259 Mass. 447 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 19, 1927

    Brown v. Russell, 166 Mass. 14, 25 . Attorney General v. Drohan, 169 Mass. 534 . Attorney General v. Trehy, 178 Mass. 186 . Attorney General v. Douglass, 195 Mass. 35 . Garvey v. Lowell, 199 Mass. 47 . … Attorney General v. Tillinghast, supra. Attorney General v. Andrew, 206 Mass. 46 .

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  • Commonwealth v. Certain Intoxicating Liquors

    108 Mass. 290 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 15, 1871

    Downing v. Porter, 8 Gray, 539 . Commonwealth v. Intoxicating Liquors, 97 Mass. 62 .

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  • Brown's Case

    334 Mass. 343 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 27, 1956

    Brown, put him in the Massachusetts Osteopathic Hospital for about three weeks. Then on the advice of his physicians he went to Florida where he remained until the time of the hearing before the single member. … All of the *346 findings of the single member were affirmed by the reviewing board.

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  • Sullivan v. Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters

    302 Mass. 246 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 1, 1939

    The sum so paid was included in the monthly remittance from that court to the governing board of the order and was retained by the latter. “The act of receiving said remittance was the act of the defendant." … It is expressly affirmed in Carlson v. Supreme Council American Legion of Honor, 115 Cal. 466 ; Brown v. Knights of the Protected Ark, 43 Col. 289 ; Gifford v. Workmen’s Benefit Association, 105 Maine, 17; Chasson v.

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  • Commonwealth v. Wright

    19 L.R.A. 206 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 23, 1893

    Kentucky v. Dennison, 24 How. 66 . Brown's case, 112 Mass. 409 . … Commonwealth v. Clark, 2 Met. 23 . Brown v. Gordon, 1 Gray, 182 . Commonwealth v. Cooley, 6 Gray, 350 .

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