Beeler v. Downey

How courts have described this case

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• instructing that words used in one part of statute in definite sense should be given same meaning in another part of statute
• explaining that “where the Legislature has employed specific language in one paragraph, but not in another, the language should not be implied where it is not present”
• declining to insert language legislature omitted when the language was used elsewhere in the General Laws
• ruling inadmissible fact that medical malpractice tribunal had made pretrial determination that plaintiff had shown “a legitimate question of liability appropriate for judicial inquiry” because of its “unquestionably great” potential for unfair prejudice
• when a word is used in one part of a statute, it should be given the same meaning throughout that whole statute
• \We generally decline 'to consider constitutional issues for the first time on appeal in order to avoid an unnecessary constitutional decision' \

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