Matter of Attorneys in Violation of Judiciary Law § 468-a (Couttenye)

How courts have described this case

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• limiting meaning of building in phrase “place of assembly, theatre, special hall, public hall, factory, workshop, manufacturing establishment or building”
• in statute describing “a place of assembly, theater, special hall, public hall, factory, workshop, manufacturing establishment or building,” the word building does not include a house
• “We need not define the class precisely except to note that it is characterized by public and commercial structures and that the context does not encompass a single family house”
• “The large number of owners of [owner-occupied two-family homes] in the Commonwealth should not be exposed to expanded civil liability deriving from the regulatory provisions of [c.] 143 except by express and clear legislation evidencing that intention”
• statutory definition limited by the application of the doctrine of ejusdem generis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).