Link v. City of Shelton

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a court “may look to the meaning given the same phrase in unrelated statutes ... and consider that where the legislature uses the same phrase it intends the same meaning.”
• construing the phrase \in the course of his duty\ in the statute in question in light of the same phrase in the \unrelated\ workers' compensation statute
• construing the phrase “in the course of his duty” in the statute in question in light of the same phrase in the “unrelated” workers’ compensation statute
• construing the phrase \in the course of his duty\ in the statute in question in light of the same phrase in the \unrelated\ workers’ compensation statute
• ‘‘new facts alleged . . . for the first time on appeal’’ improper because they ‘‘were not part of the pleadings or affidavits below’’
• courts “may look to the meaning given the same phrase in unrelated statutes . . . and consider that where the legislature uses the same phrase it intends the same meaning”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).