· 4/17/2012
Mendes v. Factor
Citations
- 41 A.3d 994
- 2012 WL 1312896
- 2012 R.I. LEXIS 51
How courts have described this case
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- “The plain meaning approach, however, is not the equivalent of myopic literalism, and it is entirely proper for us to look to the sense and meaning fairly deducible from the context.”
- “[U]nder no circumstances will this Court construe a statute to reach an absurd result.”
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Judges: Suttell, Goldberg, Flaherty, Robinson, Indeglia
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