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HOTCHKISS v. STATE RACING COMMISSION

No. 97-P-0248.

45 Mass. App. Ct. 684 (1998)

MALCOLM HOTCHKISS v. STATE RACING COMMISSION.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 9, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Candies Pruitt, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Rosemary Curran Scapicchio for the plaintiff.

Present: BROWN, GREENBERG, & LAURENCE, JJ.

LAURENCE, J.

Justice Holmes once stated a corollary to one of our most familiar legal apothegms:

"Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment."

Northern Sec. Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197

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