51 Md. App. 570 - Williams v. McHugh’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
March 1995
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · United States v. Heffner · Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. v. Los Angeles Rams Football Co. · Clark v. Elza · Eastgate Associates v. Apper
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“This was obviously a procedural guideline permitting the Commission to clear its dockets of abandoned cases, while leaving some discretion to decide a questionable case within the construction guides of § 63. It clearly did not intend to restrict itself so as mandatorily to curtail its right—or duty—to modify or change its former orders or findings when it felt justified, within five years of a compensation payment as legislatively authorized in Art. 101 § 40(c). Indeed, if the Commission had intended to restrict further its discretionary modification authority to the possible detriment of a claimant, such rule would have been ultra vires to that extent and purpose, as failing to conform with § 40(c) and § 63. Art. 101, § 10. (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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