Goldman v. Torres

How courts have described this case

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• stating that disfigurement is “that which impairs or injures the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of a person . . . ; that which renders unsightly, misshapen or imperfect, or deforms in some manner”
• stating that reading language into a statute usurps the legislature's power
• stating that reading language into a statute usurps the Legislature's power
• stating that reading language into a statute usurps the Legislature's power
• stating that reading language into a statute usurps the legislature’s power
• “[T]his court cannot, under the guise of liberal construction, usurp the power of the legislature by reading into the Act a provision that is not there.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).