Kay v. Fredrigal

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a court “may not usurp the province of the legislature” by re-writing the law
• refusing to rewrite the Investigating Grand Jury Act to add hearing and evidentiary procedures which the legislature did not include
• in Pennsylvania, “the investigating grand jury process is solely a creature of statute”
• in Pennsylvania, \the investigating grand jury process is solely a creature of statute\
• “[O]ur Court may not usurp the province of the legislature by rewriting [a statute] to add . . . requirements that . . . do not comport with the [statute] itself . . . .”
• “[A]s with all legal proceedings which affect fundamental individual rights, the judicial branch serves a critical role in guarding against unjustified diminution of due process protections for individuals whose right of reputation might be impugned.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).