Downey v. Carcieri

How courts have described this case

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

• construing “the statutory language ‘heretofore provided’ as containing an element of reasonableness”
• “[I]t is this [Cjourt’s responsibility in interpreting a legislative enactment * * * to attribute to the enactment the meaning most consistent with its policies or obvious purposes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).