Providence Journal Co. v. Rodgers

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the Supreme Court will interpret a statute in a manner \that is most consistent with its policy or obvious purpose\
• \We do not `interpret a legislative enactment literally when to do so would provide a result at odds with its legislative intent.'\
• “We do not ‘ “interpret a legislative enactment literally when to do so would provide a result at odds with its legislative intent.” ’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).