Foley v. Buffalo

How courts have described this case

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• providing that statutory terms bear their common, ordinary meaning, unless the text provides a different meaning or the common meaning leads to an absurd result
• stating that to determine a term’s common, ordinary meaning, courts “typically look first to dictionary definitions”
• explaining that an innocent stakeholder is entitled to attorneys’ fees to be paid out of the interpleaded funds
• stating that courts “typically look first to dictionary definitions” when determining the “common, ordinary meaning” of words not statutorily defined
• holding courts must honor plain language of statute unless that interpretation would lead to absurd results
• stating that courts “typically look first to dictionary definitions” when determining the “common, ordinary meaning” of words not statutorily defined

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).