Town Taxi Inc. v. Police Commissioner of Boston

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that commissioner’s broad statutory authority to “fix maximum and minimum rates” for taxi industry includes power to adopt order reducing fares for elderly and handicapped
• characterizing St. 1934, c. 280, as imposing “duties” on the commissioner, including the issuance of taxicab medallions
• “question whether the taxi industry monopoly created by the applicable statutes is wise as a matter of economic and social policy is, of course, not subject to judicial review”
• court must balance the litigants’ need for discovery of tax returns with the taxpayer’s interest in preserving the confidentiality of those returns
• taxicab companies lacked standing to challenge discriminatory impact of taxicab rates on different classes of passengers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).