Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination v. Liberty Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• “Such inaction by a subsequent legislative body ‘has no persuasive significance’ with reference to the intent of the Legislature which passed the original bill”
• \[t]he views of a subsequent [Legislature] form a hazardous basis for inferring the intent of an earlier one\ [citation omitted]
• where a statute “lacks precision . . . [or] the draftsmanship is faulty ... the duty devolves upon us to give [it] ... a reasonable construction [so as] . . . to carry out the legislative intent” [internal citations omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).