Section 8

Citation: Section 8
Parent Document: Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities v. Sullivan Associates, 250 Conn. 763 (1999)
Jurisdiction: Connecticut (state)
Effective Date: 1999-10-12
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7898215/commission-on-human-rights-oppo... ↗

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Moreover, we often have construed statutes or acts of the legislature in such a way as to fulfill their basic purpose, even when that construction wont beyond, or seemed contrary to, the statutes’ facial requirements. See, e.g., Butler v. Hartford Technical Institute, Inc., 243 Conn. 454, 463-64, 704 A.2d 222 (1997) (individual can be held liable as “employer” implicit in General Statutes §31-72); Coley v. Camden Associates, Inc., supra, 243 Conn. 323 (retroactivity implicit in General Statutes § 31-301 [f]); Doe v. Marsella, 236 Conn. 845, 860-61, 675 A.2d 835 (1996) (General Statutes § 19-590 read to require only “knowing” disclosure of HIV information); Paige v. Town Plan & Zoning Commission, 235 Conn. 448, 461-62, 668 A.2d 340 (1995) (no “economic value” requirement in General Statutes § 22a-19 [a]); Turner v. Turner, 219 Conn. 703, 720, 595 A.2d 297 (1991) (General Statutes § 46b-86 construed to allow court to modify dissolution orders entered before statute was amended); Mahoney v. Lensink, 213 Conn. 548, 558, 569 A.2d 518 (1990) (General Statutes § 17-206k construed to abrogate sovereign immunity as “necessary implication” of Patients’ Bill of Rights); Bergner v. State, 144 Conn. 282, 288-89, 130 A.2d 293 (1957) (waiver of state’s immunity from tort liability read into special act of General Assembly).

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