· 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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