First National Bank v. Judge Baker Guidance Center

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding from reading Massachusetts statute and statutes of other jurisdictions that had Legislature intended to provide for equitable apportionment, “it knew how to do so”
• where legislature uses specific language in one part of statute but not other parts that treat the same subject, “the language should not be implied where it is not present”
• when Legislature employs specific language in one part of a statute but not in another part that deals with the same topic, the specific language is not to be implied where it is not present

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).