Rhodes v. Town of Georgia

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “statutes should not be construed to produce absurd or illogical consequences”
• noting that, to invoke impossibility rule, party “must demonstrate why this Court should not construe the statute in its ordinary sense or why the consequences of such construction will cause hardship or constitute impossibility”
• rejecting party’s interpretation of a statute where it “did not demonstrate . . . that the statute imposes an impossible mandate”
• rejecting party’s interpretation of a statute where it “did not demonstrate . . . that the statute imposes an impossible mandate”
• “We have long held that statutes should not be construed to produce absurd or illogical consequences.”
• statutory language should be accorded \natural and logical\ meaning

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).