Commonwealth v. Shenk, C.

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 within the province of the courts to read meaning into a statute that is not there or to read anything direct and plain out of a statute”
• “we are not tasked with selecting what we believe is the best policy. It is the function of the Legislature, through the enact- ment of statutes, to declare what is the law and public policy of this state”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).