State Board of Retirement v. Boston Retirement Board

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “a statute must be interpreted according to the intent of the Legislature ascertained from all it words construed by the ordinary and approved usage of the language . . .”
• “we need not look beyond the words of the statute where the language is plain and unambiguous”
• “we need not look beyond the words of the statute where the language is plain and unambiguous”
• “we need not look beyond the words of the statute where the language is plain and unambiguous”
• “we need not look beyond the words of the statute where the language is plain and unambiguous”
• intent of Legislature is to be ascertained from words of statute “construed by the ordinary and approved usage of the language”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).