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Grody v. State

Citations

  • 278 N.E.2d 280

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  • holding that “[i]t is not within the province of [the courts] to expand or contract the meaning of a statute by reading into it language which will ... correct any supposed omissions or defects therein”
  • court “will not consider the abstract question of whether Congress might have enacted a valid statute but instead must ask whether the statute Congress did enact will permissibly bear a construction rendering it free from constitutional defects”
  • If a statute has a plain meaning, it must be given effect

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Judges: Debruler

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