Bennett v. City of Holyoke

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that \municipalities are creatures of the state\ subject to control of the state's legislature
• observing that courts should not \interpret a statute in a way that would produce an entirely illogical result\
• explaining that the rule against awarding prejudgment interest on punitive damage is “based on sound policy” because the purpose of prejudgment interest is not to penalize the wrongdoer or make the damaged party more than whole
• \Raising a defense to a particular claim does not automatically preserve that defense with respect to other independent claims.\
• deferring to the district court’s decision to grant an extension under Rule 4(a)(5)
• defense available for Rule 12 purposes where it did not contradict any previously binding precedent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).