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MURPHY v. MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE AUTHORITY

SJC-10987.

462 Mass. 701 (2012)

SANDRA MURPHY & others, beneficiaries, & another v. MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE AUTHORITY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 12, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald M. Griswold ( Orestes G. Brown with him) for the plaintiffs.

Kenneth W. Salinger , Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Richard P. Schweitzer , of the District of Columbia, Richard Pianka & Prasad Sharma, of Virginia, & Mark K. Molloy, for American Trucking Associations, Inc., & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.

GANTS, J.

The issue presented in this case is whether the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (authority) lawfully was permitted to use toll revenues collected from users of tolled roads and tunnels in the Metropolitan Highway System (MHS) to pay for overhead, maintenance, and capital costs associated with the MHS's nontolled roads, bridges, and tunnels. We conclude that it was.4

Background. Before 1997, the authority owned...

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