Taylor v. Firemen's & Policemen's Civil Service Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• “[w]ords and phrases shall be read in context and construed according to the rules of grammar and common usage”
• “[w]ords and phrases shall be read in context and construed according to the rules of grammar and common usage”
• in statutory construction, one must look to the entire act to determine the legislature's intent with respect to specific provisions
• in the absence of specific amendment, statute should be given meaning it had when enacted
• looldng to text-based semantic cues but not external aides
• statute should be given “meaning it had when enacted”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).