Steffes v. City of Lawrence

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Legislature may establish strict-liability offenses for the protection of the public
• “When language is plain and unambiguous, there is no need to resort to statutory construction. An appellate court merely interprets the language as it appears; it is not free to speculate and cannot read into the statute language not readily found there.”
• When a statute’s language is plain and unambiguous, there is no need to resort to statutory construction. An appellate court merely interprets the language as it appears; it is not free to speculate and cannot read into the statute language not readily found there.
• granting of injunctive relief reviewed for abuse of discretion
• applying \weighty burden\ to proving unconstitutionality of city ordinance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).