Manning v. Boston Redevelopment Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• “A statute ... should not be construed in a way that produces absurd or unreasonable results when a sensible construction is readily available.”
• “if a sensible construction is available, we shall not construe a statute to make a nullity of pertinent provisions or to produce absurd results”
• \A statute ... should not be construed in a way that produces absurd or unreasonable results when a sensible construction is readily available\
• “Statutes that relate to the same subject matter are not to be construed ‘in a way that produces absurd or unreasonable results when a sensible construction is readily available’ ”
• local ordinances may not be construed as meaningless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).