Massachusetts General Hospital v. Rate Setting Commission

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that there may be advisory or informational pronouncements by an agency which may be issued without going through the formal Chapter 30A procedures for promulgating regulations
• agencies may issue advisory or informational guidelines intended “to fill in the details or clear up an ambiguity of an established policy”
• not necessarily abuse of discretion to rule on merits of claim without ruling on motion to certify class
• unlike parallel federal rule, Mass.R.Civ.P. 23 does not require that class certification be decided at outset of case
• agency pronouncement more likely to be viewed as regulation where it \is seen to involve difficulties of compliance\
• where pronouncement by administrative agency is advisory or informal, it does not have binding force of “full-blown regulation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).