Legal Opinion
In Re Bernstein
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided December 28, 1999No. Civ.A. 99-10381-WGYPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
YOUNG, Chief Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
As is not infrequently the case, legislation designed to address and ameliorate a specific issue has consequences far beyond and different than the Congress had intended. See e.g., Andrews-Clarke v. Travelers Ins. Co., 984 F.Supp. 49 (D.Mass. 1997) (detailing the unintended perverse consequences of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act). This is another such case.
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