Borden v. East-European Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to address issues beyond the basis for the Court's conflict jurisdiction
• “This issue involves a question of statutory interpretation and thus is subject to de novo review.”
• “[A]ll parts of a statute must be read together in order to achieve a consistent whole.”
• “Service of process . . . notif[ies] a party of a legal claim and . . . enables the court to exercise jurisdiction over the defendant and proceed to judgment.”
• “Service of process is the means of notifying a party of a legal claim and, when accomplished, enables the court to exercise jurisdiction over the defendant and proceed to judgment.”
• “It is . . . a basic rule of statutory construction that ‘the Legislature does not intend to enact useless provisions, and courts should avoid readings that would render part of a statute meaningless.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).