Dennard v. Charter Realty Group

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that Connecticut courts use cases interpreting federal fair housing laws as guidance when analyzing state law housing discrimination claims despite differences between the statutes
• “[i]t is a basic tenet of statutory construction that the legislature [does] not intend to enact meaningless [or redundant] provisions” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• conclusions based on undisputed facts are conclusions of law, over which our review is plenary
• “This court repeatedly has recognized that a town plan is merely advisory.” (quotation mark omitted)
• municipality’s project plan was “pretext ... to thwart affordable housing”; “the record fully support[ed] the trial court’s finding that the [chapter 132] project plan was hastily assembled, poorly envisioned and incomplete”
• “It is a basic tenet of statutory construction that the legislature did not intend to enact meaningless provisions. . . . Accordingly, care must be taken to effectuate all provisions of the statute.” [Citation omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).