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West Virginia Supreme Court· 6/9/2000

Meadows v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Citations

  • 530 S.E.2d 676
  • 207 W. Va. 203

How courts have described this case

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

  • “W. Va. R. Civ. P. 68 ... is based upon and almost identical to Rule 68 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.” (footnote omitted)
  • “A cardinal rule of statutory construction is that significance and effect must, if possible, be given to every section, clause, word or part of the statute.”
  • general words are to be given their ordinary and familiar meaning and general words are to be interpreted by the words surrounding them.
  • “A cardinal rule of statutory construction is that significance and effect must, if possible, be given to every section, clause, word or part of the statute.”
  • “A cardinal rule of statutory construction is that significance and effect must, if possible, be given to every section, clause, word or part of the statute.”
  • whether fringe benefits have accrued, are capable of calculation, and payable to an employee are determined by the terms of employment and not by the provisions of W.Va.Code, 21-5-1(e)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Maynard, Starcher, Davis

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