Lawrence v. Spence

How courts have described this case

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

• “[J]urisdiction once acquired is not defeated by subsequent events, even though they are of such a character as would have prevented jurisdiction from attaching in the first instance.”
• \To give an unreasonable or absurd construction violates the fundamental rules of statutory interpretation.\
• “To give an unreasonable or absurd construction violates the fundamental rules of statutory interpretation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).