Ware v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• denying recovery of costs in a MTCA action because the language of G.L.c. 258 neither expressly nor impliedly indicates that costs are recoverable
• court refused to apply canon that \statutory expression of one thing is an implied exclusion of other things omitted from the statute\ to imply right to recover costs against Page 670 the Commonwealth
• “. . . it appears that the legislature did not intend to allow recovery of costs from the Commonwealth in civil actions initiated by a private plaintiff, such as the present case”
• “ [t]he rules of construction governing statutoiy waivers of sovereign immunity are stringent”
• “The rules of construction governing statutory waivers of sovereign immunity are stringent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).