Candler v. State

How courts have described this case

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• noting that statutes of repose prevent stale claims from springing up and surprising parties when the evidence has been lost
• statute of repose for medical malpractice, G. L. c. 260, § 4, not subject to equitable estoppel or tolling due to fraudulent concealment
• principle of judicial restraint includes recognition of inability and undesirability of judiciary substituting its notions of correct policy for that of popularly elected Legislature
• “[W]e are bound by our Supreme Court’s decisions[.]”

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