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· 12/20/1989

Courtney v. State Department of Health

Citations

  • 388 S.E.2d 491
  • 182 W. Va. 465
  • 1989 W. Va. LEXIS 266

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “the economic distinction between employees terminated from employment due to a ‘reduction of work force’ and employees who are ‘compelled or required by law to retire before reaching the age of sixty-five’ bears a ‘rational relationship to legitimate state purposes’ ”
  • rule concerning statutes in pari materia applies with at least as much force to subsections as it would to more than one section

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Judges: McHUGH

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