Providence Hospital v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services

How courts have described this case

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

• denying a claim for an award of attorney’s fees because the claimant— rather than the employer — rejected the recommendation of the Mayor’s agent
• “Each provision of the statute should be given effect, so as not to read any language out of a statute whenever a reasonable interpretation is available that can give meaning to each word in the statute.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• discussing the court’s “rel[iance] on the plain language”
• focusing on whether employer \refuses to pay\
• focusing on whether employer “refuses to pay”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).