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Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1/17/1994

Montgomery County v. Buckman

Citations

  • 636 A.2d 448
  • 333 Md. 516
  • 1994 Md. LEXIS 15

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that to determine the legislative intent, “the Court considers the language of an enactment and gives that language its natural and ordinary meaning”
  • explaining that “[t]he cardinal rule of statutory construction is to ascertain and carry out the intent of the legislature”
  • analogizing permanent total disability under the Workers’ Compensation Act to “total incapacity” under section 33-43 of the Montgomery County Code
  • we read the statute so that “no word, phrase, clause or sentence is rendered surplusage or meaningless.”
  • “[A]bsent clear intent to the contrary, a statute is to be read so that no word, clause, sentence or phrase is rendered surplusage, superfluous, meaningless, or nugatory.”
  • “[A]bsent a clear intent to the contrary, a statute is to be read so that no word, clause, sentence or phrase is rendered surplusage, superfluous, meaningless, or nugatory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Karwacki, Eldridge, Chasanow, Bell

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95 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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