Gallagher v. City of Las Vegas

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that it would be unreasonable to deny claims of retired firefighters \because they did not discover their heart disease until some months after they retired\
• holding that an interpretation of a statute “should be in line with what reason and public policy would indicate the legislature intended, and should avoid absurd results”
• describing, in light of statutory construction principles, the expansive scope of NRS 617.457
• stating that statutory interpretation should avoid absurd results
• observing that statutory interpretation should avoid absurd results
• stating that statutory interpretation should avoid absurd results

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).