Newberry Metal Masters Fabricators v. Mitek Industries

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the courts “may not add to a statute language” that the legislature intended not be included therein
• holding that the law does not require the performance of “a meaningless act”
• holding that an employer had sufficient notice of a newly enacted statute concerning compensable heart disease to have given an employee a physical examination before the statute’s effective date, and the failure to provide the examination was “at the employer’s risk”
• explaining that adding language to a statute that the legislature has chosen not to include is impermissible under Virginia law
• commission’s award affirmed if rebuttal evidence does not exclude stress as possible “contributing cause”
• commission's award affirmed if rebuttal evidence does not exclude stress as possible \contributing cause\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).