American Family Life Assurance Co. v. Commissioner of Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• indicating that title of act may aid in construction of ambiguous language
• reviewing facial challenge to validity of regulation brought by regulated party against whom regulation had not yet been enforced
• title of act does not control plain provisions of act but may aid in interpreting ambiguous clauses
• “title of an act cannot control the plain provisions of the act”
• “[w]e will not construe the statutory language so that it is inconsistent with other portions of [the statute] when the language can fairly be interpreted to lead to a logical and consistent result”
• “In reviewing a regulation, a court ‘[cannot] substitute [its] judgment as to the need for a regulation, or the propriety of the means chosen to implement the statutory goals, so long as the regulation is rationally related to those goals’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).