Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Pamela Law

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• “[b]ecause statutory interpretation is a question of law, our review is de novo” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• ‘‘[t]he legislature is presumed to be aware and to have knowledge of all existing statutes and the effect which its own action or nonaction may have on them’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[t]he legislature is presumed to be aware and to have knowledge of all existing statutes and the effect which its own action or nonaction may have on them” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• ‘‘[t]he legislature is presumed to be aware and to have knowledge of all existing statutes and the effect which its own action or nonaction may have on them’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• tax appeals pursuant to § 12-237 entitle taxpayer to de novo trial
• ‘‘[Legal] presumptions are rules of construction and, accordingly, are to be used only after we have determined that a statute is ambiguous pursuant to § 1-2z. If we determine that no such ambiguity exists, these presumptions are inapplicable.’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).