State Ex Rel. Corbin v. Pickrell

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the legislature intended Arizona RICO “to be a tool in combating the serious problems of white collar crime”
• recognizing language of statute as clearest indicator of legislative intent
• interpreting Arizona’s RICO statutes and noting the differences between the state and federal versions
• where the statutory language is unambiguous, that language must ordinarily be regarded as conclusive, absent a clearly expressed legislative intent to the contrary
• “incorporation of other remedies” language in statute does not permit it to be applied retrospectively
• “[I]t is a basic ‘tenet of statutory construction that where the statutory language is unambiguous, that language must ordinarily be regarded as conclusive, absent a clearly expressed legislative intent to the contrary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).