International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots, Atlantic & Gulf Maritime Region v. Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• “Wherever possible, we give meaning to each word in the legislation; no word in a statute should be considered superfluous”
• “Wherever possible, we give meaning to each word in the legislation; no word in a statute should be considered superfluous”
• “Our primary duty is to interpret a law so as to effectuate the intent of the Legislature in enacting it”
• determination of whether steamship authority was required to submit disputes to interest arbitration under a particular statute must be considered against historical background of public employees’ limited collective bargaining rights at time statute was enacted
• “[t]heintent of the Legislature is to be determined primarily from the words of the statute, given their natural import in common and approved usage, and with reference to the conditions existing at the time of enactment. . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).