Pentucket Manor Chronic Hospital, Inc. v. Rate Setting Commission

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “rule 59(e) is designed to correct judgments which are erroneous because they lack legal or factual justification”
• discussing distinctions between Rules 59(e) and 60, and the inapplicability of Rule 60 to “general reconsideration of an order or a judgment” or to “challenging supposed legal errors”
• treating motion to vacate as a motion under Mass.R.Civ.P. 59[e], 365 Mass. 827 [1974], which would toll the time for appeal, and not as a rule 60[b] motion, which would not toll appeal period
• statutory language not read in isolation; when meaning is “brought into question, a court properly should read other sections and should construe them together”
• Rule 59(e) is “designed to correct judgments which are erroneous because they lack legal or factual justification”
• review of administrative decision under G. L. c. 30A, § 14, generally confined to agency record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).