Kobrin v. Gastfriend

(dissenting, with whom Marshall, C.J., joins). If the Legislature had not provided its own definition of “a party’s exercise of its right of petition,” G. L. c. 231, § 59H, the various limitations on that term imposed by today’s decision might represent a plausible interpretation of the statute. We are not, however, called on to craft our own definition, or to interpret the statute based on our own understanding of what a party’s “exercise of its right of petition” ought to entail, because the Legislature has defined the term for us. The statute provides that “a party’s exercise of its right…