Akin v. Director of Revenue

How courts have described this case

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• emphasizing that in applying the severability doctrine, it is presumed that the legislature would not enact a statute with a meaningless sentence
• “[Severability] has never allowed courts to insert words in a statute which were not placed there by the [legislature].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).