State v. Hopkirk

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that monetary provisions in CBA were “cost items because, in the literal sense, implementation of the provisions ‘require[d] an appropriation’ ” (quotation omitted)
• concluding that city council’s appropriation of funds for annual school budget did not constitute approval of cost items in collective bargaining agreement pursuant to RSA 273-A:3, II(b) because agreement did not exist until after city council appropriated the funds
• “A reviewing court may not add words to a statute that the lawmakers did not see fit to include.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).