Matter of Chenango County Dept. of Social Servs. v. Ferguson

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that we seek to avoid absurd results when interpreting statutes
• finding “the context of the savings clause does not require the term ‘claim’ to take on a meaning different from the statutory definition” because there was no ambiguity after applying its intended meaning
• “We are bound to follow statutory definitions and to use them to build the foundation of our interpretive analysis.”

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