Mail Boxes v. Industrial Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that courts look first to language of the statute to determine legislative intent
• construing undefined term to avoid absurdity and to fulfill remedial purpose of statute
• noting primary goal in construing statute is to fulfill intent of legislature
• construing undefined term to avoid absurdity and to fulfill remedial purpose of statute
• “Where language is unambiguous, it is normally conclusive, absent a clearly expressed legislative intent to the contrary.”
• “The primary rule of statutory construction is to find and give effect to legislative intent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).