Chatham Manufacturing, Corp. v. Cates

How courts have described this case

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

• “[i]t is not the function of the courts to enhance or supplement a statute containing clearly expressed language”
• “[i]n the absence of any indication of the legislature’s intent concerning this issue, we cannot engraft language onto the statute”
• “[w]e are bound to interpret legislative intent by referring to what the legislative text contains, not by what it might have contained” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “[i]t is not the function of the courts to enhance or supplement a statute containing clearly expressed language”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).