VNA Hospice of Md. v. DEPT. OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to decide the constitutional questions on which we granted certiorari and electing instead to resolve the case based on a non-constitutional issue fairly presented by the record but abandoned by petitioner after its disposition by a circuit court
• discussing this Court’s preference “‘to decide constitutional issues only when necessary.’”
• “This Court has emphasized, time after time, that the Court’s strong and established policy is to decide constitutional issues only when necessary.”
• “[T]he Court’s strong and established policy is to decide constitutional issues only when necessary.” (citation modified)
• “In light of the policy against deciding constitutional issues unnecessarily, we have consistently adhered to the principle that an interpretation which raises doubts as to a legislative enactment’s constitutionality should be avoided if the language of the act permits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).