Is a statute already in existence and to have enacted or amended a statute in light of a judicial decision?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Dakota BLANKENSHIP V. ALLState Ins. Co., C059423, No.162222 (Cal. App. 2010):
already in existence and to have enacted or amended a statute in light thereof. [Citation.] When a statute has been construed by judicial decision, and that construction is not altered by subsequent legislation, it must be presumed that the legislature is aware of the judicial construction and approves of it." (Stavropoulos v. Superior Court (2006) 141 Cal.App.4th 190, 196.)
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