Schander v. Northern States Power Co.

How courts have described this case

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• courts must consider provisions in pari materia and bring them into workable harmony, if possible
• courts construe statutes to avoid unreasonable or absurd results and presume legislature does not intend to enact useless or meaningless legislation
• courts construe statutes to avoid unreasonable or absurd results and presume legislature does not intend to enact useless or meaningless legislation
• appellate court has a duty to question jurisdiction on its own initiative and exercises unlimited review over jurisdictional issues
• if facts pertinent to material issues are not disputed, summary judgment may be appropriate even when discovery is unfinished
• '[A] party seeking to appeal must be aggrieved by the judgment or order from which the appeal is taken.'

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