Blyth & Co., Inc. v. City of Portland

How courts have described this case

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

• courts must endeavor to ascertain and give effect to the legislature’s purpose
• “Courts do not cast aside language of a law as meaningless if it is reasonably possible to give it effect. *** Courts must so construe a statute as to give effect to every section, clause, phrase or word of the legislative act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).