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

    41 Mass. App. Ct. 915 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Sep 20, 1996

    Embodied in the board’s regulations establishing standards of fault to be used in determining the application of surcharges are several rebuttable presumptions. See DiLoreto v. Fireman’s Fund Ins. … It was within the board’s discretion to disbelieve the insureds’ versions of the collisions, see Embers of Salisbury, Inc. v. Alcoholic Bev.

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

    30 Mass. L. Rptr. 72 · Massachusetts Superior Court · May 24, 2012

    This is an appeal by Todd Varney (“Varney” or “Plaintiff’) pursuant to G.L.c. 30A, §14, from a decision of the Board of Appeal on Motor Vehicle Liability Policies and Bonds (“Board”), suspending Varney’s license for three … Souza v. Board of Appeals on Motor Vehicle Liability Policies and Bonds, No. SJC-11123 [reported as Souza v.

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  • John Doe 25848 v. Sex Offender Registry Board

    23 Mass. L. Rptr. 628 · Massachusetts Superior Court · Oct 1, 2007

    Group, Inc. v. Cheney, 380 Mass. 609, 616-18 (1980). The court may also consider the impact that a “stay” would have on the public interest. See Narragansett Indian Tribe v. Guilbert, 934 F.2d 4, 5 (1st Cir. 1991). … See 803 C.M.R. 1 .13; Doe v. Sex Offender Registry Bd., 428 Mass. 90 (1998) (discussing burden of proof in Board hearing cases, but silent on need for findings where a plaintiff has waived hearing).

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  • Citrus Marketing Board of Israel v. M/V Ecuadorian Reefer

    754 F. Supp. 229 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Dec 28, 1990

    In December, 1989, Chiquita sub-chartered the vessel to plaintiff Citrus Marketing Board of Israel (“CMBI”) under a voyage charter party (the “Voyage Charter Party”). Exhibit 4 attached to Affidavit of Keough. … In Organes Enterprises, Inc. v.

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  • Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Advisory Board v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

    382 Mass. 569 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 12, 1981

    See Boston v. Massachusetts Bay Transp. Auth., 373 Mass. 819, 823-824 (1977); Massachusetts Bay Transp. Auth. v. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., 348 Mass. 538, 543-546 (1965). … See, e.g., Hallenborg v. Town Clerk of Billerica, 360 Mass. 513, 519-520 (1971). In Reynolds v.

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  • Shea v. Sullivan

    261 Mass. 255 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 22, 1927

    Joyce v. Parkhurst, 150 Mass. 243 . Bates v. Reynolds, 195 Mass. 549 . Keefe v. Hart, 213 Mass. 476 . Wax v. McGrath, 255 Mass. 340 . … The trial judge instructed the jury in part as follows: “There is no evidence that they [the defendants] had authorized Sergeant Brown, or Officer Brown as he then was, or the captain, or any one else to make the contracts

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  • Salem v. MASSACHUSETTS COMM. AGAINST DISCRIMINATION

    404 Mass. 170 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 21, 1989

    See Amherst-Pelham Regional School Comm. v. Department of Educ., 376 Mass. 480 (1978); Perkins v. School Comm. of Quincy, 315 Mass. 47 (1953). We agree. … Compare Amherst-Pelham Regional School Comm. v. Department of Educ., supra at 498 (only hearing officer can judge credibility of witness), with Board of Appeals of Maynard v.

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  • Doe, SORB No. 496501 v. Sex Offender Registry Board

    Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 17, 2019

    Doe v. … Doe v.

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  • Zero Stage Capital Co. v. Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, Inc.

    15 Mass. L. Rptr. 153 · Massachusetts Superior Court · Aug 12, 2002

    (collectively, “Zero Stage”), have moved to dismiss Counts IV and V of the counterclaim brought by defendant Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, Inc. … Fairneny v. Savogran, 422 Mass. 469, 470 (1996); Eyal v. Helen Broadcasting Corp., 411 Mass. 426, 429 (1991).

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  • Poitras v. Board of Appeal On Motor Vehicle Liability Policies & Bonds

    356 Mass. 510 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 23, 1969

    See Commonwealth v. Hart, 149 Mass. 7, 9 . In the second place, however, we are of opinion that c. 90, § 22D, does not apply to the revocation of a license under c. 90, § 29. … The order of the respondent board is to be affirmed. So ordered. For powers and duties of the board see G. L. c. 26, § 8A (as amended through St. 1947, c. 94).

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  • Di Clavio's Case

    293 Mass. 259 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 28, 1936

    Pertinent principles of law are discussed in Lea v. Lea, 8 Allen, 418 , Ford v. Ford, 143 Mass. 577 , Kendrick v. Kendrick, 188 Mass. 550 , and Newman’s Case, 222 Mass. 563 . … Others assume facts which the board was not obliged to find or ask the board to rule that various isolated bits of fact are evidence of various other facts. Commonwealth v. Polian, 288 Mass. 494, 498 .

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  • Corliss v. Civil Service Commissioners

    242 Mass. 61 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 28, 1922

    As was said in Phillips v. … Brown v. Russell, 166 Mass. 14 .

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  • Diatchenko v. District Attorney for the Suffolk District Commonwealth v. Roberio

    471 Mass. 12 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 23, 2015

    In Commonwealth v. Brown, 466 Mass. 676 (2013), and Commonwealth v. … Justice Spina’s dissent emphasizes, post at 37-39, that our decisions in Diatchenko I, Brown, Commonwealth v. Ray, 467 Mass. 115 (2014), and Commonwealth v.

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  • American Lithuanian Naturalization Club, Athol, Mass., Inc. v. Board of Health

    446 Mass. 310 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 22, 2006

    We have long recognized that the rule making authority of local boards of health is broad. See Independence Park, Inc. v. Board of Health of Barnstable, 403 Mass. 477, 480 (1988) (G. … Board of Health of Barnstable, 433 Mass. 217, 220 (2001), stand “on the same footing as would a statute,” Padden v. West Boylston, 64 Mass. App. Ct. 120, 124-125 (2005), quoting Druzik v.

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  • Public Access Tours, Inc. v. Public Access Board

    22 Mass. L. Rptr. 420 · Massachusetts Superior Court · Feb 5, 2007

    ramps under the Board’s jurisdiction. … Massachusetts Fed’n of Teachers v. Board of Educ., 436 Mass. 763, 771 (2002).

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  • Warner Amex Cable Communications Inc. v. Board of Assessors of Everett

    396 Mass. 239 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 18, 1985

    Boston v. Mac-Gray Co., 371 Mass. 825, 827 (1977). See Collector of Taxes v. Cigarette Serv. Co., supra at 166. … See Boston v. Mac-Gray Co., supra at 828 (coin-aper- *243 ated washing machines and dryers taxable); Collector of Taxes v. Cigarette Serv. Co., supra at 166. See also Ultronic Syss. Corp. v.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Parker v. Hurley

    474 F. Supp. 2d 261 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Feb 23, 2007

    Brown v. … Norwick, 441 U.S. 68, 80 , 99 S.Ct. 1589 , 60 L.Ed.2d 49 (1979), and Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 493 , 74 S.Ct. 686 , 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954)). Schools are expected to transmit civic values. See Plyler v.

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  • Ka-Hur Enterprises, Inc. v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Provincetown

    424 Mass. 404 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 10, 1997

    Pioneer Insulation & Modernizing Corp. v. Lynn, 331 Mass. 560, 565 (1954). In Bartlett v. Board of Appeals of Lakeville, 23 Mass. App. … Ka-Hur Enters., Inc. v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Province-town, supra at 74.

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  • Lynch v. Forbes

    161 Mass. 302 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 17, 1894

    Fall River Iron Works v. Old Colony & Fall River Railroad, 5 Allen, 221 , 226. People v. Smith, 21 N. Y. 595, 597 . Boom Co. v. Patterson, 98 U. S. 403, 406 . Stockton & Darlington Railway v. Brown, 9 H. L. Cas. 246. … Under this provision the town properly could delegate the power of taking to the selectmen and water board. Eastern Railroad v. Boston & Maine Railroad, 111 Mass. 125 . Lund v. New Bedford, 121 Mass. 286 . Lyon v.

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  • Stratton Massachusetts Gold Mines Co. v. Davis

    222 Mass. 549 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 9, 1916

    Brown, Charles E. … Garden Gully United Quartz Mining Co. v. McLister, 1 App. Cas. 39. People’s Mutual Ins. Co. v. Westcott, 14 Gray, 440 . Moses v. Tompkins, 84 Ala. 613 . Macon & Augusta Railroad v. Vason, 57 Ga. 314 . Shellenberger v.

    Cited 11 timesPublished

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