Does the California Courts have a duty to follow the plain meaning of the California Civil Code of Civil Procedure?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Young, 203 Cal.Rptr.3d 153, 247 Cal.App.4th 972 (Cal. App. 2016):
not follow the plain meaning of the statute when to do so would frustrate[ ] the manifest purposes of the legislation as a whole or [lead] to absurd results. [Citation.] Instead, we will interpret legislation reasonably and ... attempt to give effect to the apparent purpose of the statute. ' (People v. Nelson, supra, 200 Cal.App.4th at pp. 10971098, 132 Cal.Rptr.3d 856.)
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