Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co. v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• “The word ‘or’ is given a disjunctive meaning unless the context and main purpose of all the words demand otherwise”
• MBTA properly exercised its powers granted by G. L. c. 161A by entering into contract with independent contractor to provide certain rail transportation
• fundamental to statutory construction that word “or” is disjunctive unless context and main purpose of all words require otherwise
• “The word ‘or’ is given a disjunctive meaning unless the context and the main purpose of all the words demand otherwise”
• \The word 'or' is given a disjunctive meaning unless the context and the main purpose of all the words demand otherwise\
• “It is fundamental to statutory construction that the word ‘or’ is disjunctive ‘unless the context and the main purpose of all the words demand otherwise’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).