Legal Opinion
Hotchkiss v. State Racing Commission
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided November 9, 1998No. 97-P-0248PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLaurence, 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, 400 (1904) (Holmes, J., dissenting). Malcolm Hotchkiss’s effort to overturn the State Racing Commission’s decision to eject him from Suffolk Downs racetrack and, following a Superior Court…
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