Attorney General v. Kenco Optics, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that all practicing opticians in Massachusetts need not be joined to declaratory judgment suit determining whether opticians could continue to fit contact lenses to the human eye
• “When an action for declaratory relief is properly brought and relief is denied on the merits, the action should not be dismissed,” and rights of parties should be declared
• “When an action for declaratory relief is properly brought and relief is denied on the merits, the action should not be dismissed.... [citation omitted
• not necessary to join parties whose only interest in a decision is that they might be bound by any precedent on an issue of law
• “G.L.c. 231A, §8, does not require the joinder of persons who would be affected by a decision only as a precedent on an issue of law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).