Deluxe Cabinet Works v. Messmer

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to read statute to change existing law because “the language of the statute cannot reasonably be read” to do that
• “the potentially redundant effect of statutory language does not give us license to redraft the statute so that it means something ‘new’ ”
• if the legislature intends to change a statute, it must use language that, reasonably construed, actually changes the statute
• if the legislature intends to change a statute, it must use language that, reasonably construed, actually changes the statute
• “[W]e áre constrained by the reasonable construction of the language that the legislature actually enactedf.]”
• “whatever the legislative history shows, the fact remains that the language of the statute cannot reasonably be read to accomplish what employer suggests, and we may not rewrite that language so that it more closely tracks with the legislature’s unenacted intentions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).