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· 12/24/1974

Commonwealth v. Henry's Drywall Co., Inc.

Citations

  • 320 N.E.2d 911
  • 366 Mass. 539
  • 1974 Mass. LEXIS 751

How courts have described this case

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

  • declaring “[i]t is not our function to consider the expediency of an [administrative] enactment or the wisdom of its provisions”
  • “we are not required to blind ourselves to possi ble rationales that may have influenced the Legislature”
  • all rational inferences are made in favor of legislation whose constitutionality is challenged on due process and equal protection grounds
  • classification survives rational basis test “if any state of facts reasonably may be conceived to justify it”
  • \It is not our function to consider the expediency of an enactment or the wisdom of its * provisions\
  • “unless the statute is patently offensive, [we] will defer to the legislative finding of facts’’

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Judges: Tauro, Reardon, Quirico, Hennessey, Kaplan

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