The court would read the charges, and if necessary, produce at least two witnesses.

It seems that the state's four intermediate courts all read the word "confidential" into the law.

Yesterday's decision is another disturbing sign that - as the current court reads the Constitution - powerful parties have more rights than regular people.

Lower courts have read Lawrence differently on the question of scrutiny.

The court will not, however, read an ambiguity into clear words by giving them a strained or tortured meaning.

On Tuesday, after further argument in the case, the court declared him guilty and read the sentence:

Accordingly, a court must read any statute passed by parliament so as to uphold Convention rights, where this is possible.

He further argued that the court was reading too much into the motives of the legislature in enacting the statute.

The court read the exemption as not applying to gas sales.

Yet all of these efforts would have been for naught had the courts not read the law the same way.