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  • School Committee of Boston v. Boston

    383 Mass. 693 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 4, 1981

    School Comm. of Boston v. Board of Educ., 352 Mass. 693, 697 (1967), appeal dismissed, 389 U.S. 572 (1968). … See Commonwealth v. School Comm. of Springfield, 382 Mass. 665, 667 (1981); Board of Educ. v. Assessor of Worcester, 368 Mass. 511, 515 (1975).

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  • Commonwealth v. McGuire

    421 Mass. 236 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 6, 1995

    Commonwealth v. Thomas, 399 Mass. 165, 168 (1987) (representation by person who had been suspended from bar for failure to register with Board of Bar Overseers is not per se ineffective assistance of counsel). … Neither the board nor bar counsel requested that the single justice make the suspension effective immediately. The court in Commonwealth v.

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  • Ann Wheeler v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

    378 Mass. 58 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 10, 1979

    They rely especially on Gorodetzer v. Kraft, 360 Mass. 743 (1972), and Mitchell v. … Moustakis v.

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  • Crompton v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.

    334 Mass. 207 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 22, 1956

    The case is controlled by Gleason v. … On the authority of Brown v.

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  • Beale v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.

    196 Mass. 119 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 20, 1907

    O'Shaughnessy v. Suffolk Brewing Co. 145 Mass. 569 . Slattery v. Lawrence Ice Co. 190 Mass. 79 . Aiken v. Holyoke Street Railway, 180 Mass. 8 . … Evensen v. Lexington & Boston Street Railway, 187 Mass. 77 . Hartford v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad, 184 Mass. 365 . Galbraith v. West End Street Railway, 165 Mass. 572 . Commonwealth v.

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  • Committee for Public Counsel Services v. Chief Justice of the Trial Court (No. 2)

    Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 28, 2020

    In Commonwealth v. Charles, 466 Mass. 63, 72 (2013), citing Commonwealth v. … Dan V.

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  • Waltham Door & Window Co. v. S. A. Woods Machine Co.

    342 Mass. 335 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 31, 1961

    Yorston v. Brown, 178 Mass. 103, 107 . The conduct of the parties in making and receiving payment by check and shipping the machinery without reference to notes or insurance would also be relevant. See Cetrone v. … L. c. 106, § 20 (1), § 21, Rules 4 (1) and (2), § 24; Lord v. Edwards, 148 Mass. 476, 477 ; Levy v. Radkay, 233 Mass. 29 ; John B. Frey Co. Inc. v. S. Silk, Inc. 245 Mass. 534, 541 ; Manhattan Clothing Co. Inc. v.

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  • Snow v. Alley

    144 Mass. 546 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 21, 1887

    Conner v. Henderson, 15 Mass. 319 . Morse v. Brackett, 98 Mass. 205 . See also Bassett v. Brown, 105 Mass. 551 ; Estabrook v. Swett, 116 Mass. 303 . … Justice Wells, in Bassett v. Brown, ubi supra. The plaintiff relies much on the case of Masson v.

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  • Pickering v. Young

    282 Mass. 292 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 9, 1933

    Woodbury v. Hayden, 211 Mass. 202 . Johnson v. Johnson, 215 Mass. 276 . Slattery v. Wason, 151 Mass. 266 . Casey v. Genter, 276 Mass. 165 . King v. Denison, 1 V. & B. 260. Gilbert v. Bennett, 10 Sim. 371. Hughes v. … Browne v. Paull, 1 Sim. N. S. 92. Tucker v. Kayess, 4 Kay & Johns. 339. Clarke v. Hilton, L. R. 2 Eq. 810. Irvine v. Sullivan, L. R. 8 Eq. 673. Croome v. Croome, 59 L. T. (N. S.) 582, affirmed 61 L. T. (N. S.) 814.

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  • Mann v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

    256 Mass. 236 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 29, 1926

    Hurd v. Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway, 254 Mass. 204 . … If he had *238 been a pedestrian on a public way waiting to board a car, it is settled, that he could not recover, and even if he was a passenger changing cars during transit the same rule applies. Neale v.

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  • Rugg v. Town Clerk of Arlington

    364 Mass. 264 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 7, 1973

    Compare Wachter v. McEvoy, 125 Md. 399, 408 (1915); Ellis v. Lennon, 86 Mich. 468, 473-474 (1891). Under G. … See Vigoda v. Superintendent of Boston State Hosp. 336 Mass. 724, 726 (1958); Carilli v. Hersey, 303 Mass. 82, 84 (1939); Capp v. Chamberlain Real Estate, Inc. 355 Mass. 58, 61-62 (1968).

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  • Danca v. Taunton Savings Bank

    385 Mass. 1 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 7, 1982

    Barrett Assocs. v. Aronson, 346 Mass. 150, 152 (1963), quoting from Kilroy v. Barron, 326 Mass. 464, 465 (1950). Alpine v. Friend Bros., 244 Mass. 164, 167 (1923). The judge’s reference to Rice v. … See Harrison v. Textron, Inc., 367 Mass. 540, 554-555 (1975); M. F. Roach Co. v. Provincetown, 355 Mass. 731 (1969); Chartrand v. Riley, 354 Mass. 242 (1968).

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  • Leader v. Hycor, Inc.

    395 Mass. 215 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 18, 1985

    He indicated that the board of directors had no plans to increase dividends. … In Teschner v.

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  • Bowker v. Torrey

    215 Mass. 547 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 21, 1913

    Ames v. Jackson, 115 Mass. 508, 510 . The liability was created by her act, however innocently done, in receiving property to which she was not equitably entitled. See the notes to Brown v. Quinton, 18 Ann. … Cas. 292, and to Western Newspaper Union v. Thurmond, 23 Ann. Cas. 728.

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  • Long v. Inhabitants of Athol

    196 Mass. 497 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 26, 1907

    Savage v. Stevens, 126 Mass. 207 . Brown v. Leach, 107 Mass. 364 . Salem India Rubber Co. v. Adams, 23 *505 Pick. 256 . Poland v. Brownell, 131 Mass. 138 . Brady v. Finn, 162 Mass. 260 . … This was the rule adopted at law in Bailey v. Marden, 193 Mass. 277 , Brown v. Woodbury, 183 Mass. 279 , Posner v. Seder, 184 Mass. 331, 333 , Simmons v. Lawrence Duck Co. 133 Mass. 298 , and Fitzgerald v.

    Cited 67 timesPublished
  • Page v. Bent

    43 Mass. 371 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 15, 1841

    Corbett v. Brown, 8 Bing. 33. But, in the first place, the representation was, in terms, of the amount of creditors’ claims preferred by the assignment, and it is not suggested that this was not literally true. … Haycraft v. Creasy, 2 East, 92. Lord v. Colley, 6 N. Hamp. 99. Tryon v. Whitmarsh, 1 Met. 1 .

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  • Commonwealth v. Hayden

    211 Mass. 296 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 29, 1912

    Newton v Belger, 143 Mass. 598 . Commonwealth v. Maletsky, 203 Mass. 241 . Winthrop v. New England Chocolate Co. 180 Mass. 464 . This construction is confirmed by the terms of § 10 of the same chapter 104. … alteration, maintenance or use of a building” in violation of an ordinance (thus repeating three of the words used in § 1), and also “the further construction, alteration or repair of a building,” condemned as unsafe by a board

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  • Taborsak v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance

    289 Mass. 8 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 2, 1935

    Briggs v. McDonald, 166 Mass. 37, 39 . O. Sheldon Co. v. Cooke, *12 177 Mass. 441, 443-444 . Britton v. Goodman, 235 Mass. 471, 474 . See also Bassett v. Crafts, 129 Mass. 513, 517 ; Granger v. … Hunt v. Brown, 146 Mass. 253 . Savage v. Blanchard, 148 Mass. 348 .

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Massachusetts Community College Council MTA/NEA v. Labor Relations Commission

    402 Mass. 352 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 9, 1988

    Section 9 states that either party to a labor dispute may petition the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for determination of a bargaining impasse “[ajfter a reasonable period of negotiation over the terms of a collective … Welch & Co. v. Deputy Comm’r of Capital Planning & Operations, 387 Mass. 662, 666 (1982), quoting Caminetti v. United States, 242 U.S. 470, 485 (1917). The decision of the Commission is affirmed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Rodriguez

    441 Mass. 1002 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 10, 2004

    Commonwealth v. Villalobos, supra at 801 . … Keri Rudolph Brown, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

    Cited 5 timesPublished

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