“where a decision does not announce new common-law rules or rights but rather construes a statute, no analysis of retroactive or prospective effect is required because at issue is the meaning of the statute since its enactment”
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Columbia Plaza Associates v. Northeastern University
where a decision does not announce new common-law rules or rights but rather construes a statute, no analysis of retroactive or prospective effect is required because at issue is the meaning of the statute since its enactment
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See McIntire, petitioner, 458 Mass. 257, 262 (2010), cert. denied, 563 U.S. 1012 (2011) (Johnstone error generally requires relief from judgment).
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Reichenbach v. Haydock
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See Fabre v. Walton , 436 Mass. 517 , 521-522, 766 N.E.2d 474 (2002). 5 "Where a decision does not announce new common-law rules or rights but rather construes a statute, no analysis of retroactive or prospective effect is required because at issue is the meaning of the statute since its enactment." McIntire, petitioner , 458 Mass. 257 , 261, 936 N.E.2d 424 (2010), cert. denied, 563 U.S. 1012 , 131 S.Ct. 2909 , 179 L.Ed.2d 1253 (2011).
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John McIntire
v.
Massachusetts
v.
Massachusetts
No. 10-9687.
Supreme Court of the United States.
May 23, 2011.
563 U.S. 1012
2011 U.S. LEXIS 3883
Published
Citer courts: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial… (1)
Petition for writ of cer-tiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts denied.
Same case below, 458 Mass. 257, 936 N.E.2d 424.