176 Mich. App. 620 - People v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 1997
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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“Remedial statutes, and the remedial portions of penal statutes, are to be liberally construed. See, e.g., Robinson v Harmon, 157 Mich 272, 278 ; 122 NW 106 (1909); Rancour v The Detroit Edison Co, 150 Mich App 276, 285 ; 388 NW2d 336 (1986), lv den 428 Mich 860 (1987); Pi-Con, Inc v A J Anderson Construction Co, 169 Mich App 389, 395 ; 425 NW2d 563 (1988). [Jackson, supra at 628, n 3 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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