Aragon v. Chapman

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to interpret statute in way that would lead to bizarre result
• refusing to interpret statute in way that would lead to bizarre result
• ‘‘[e]very word and phrase is presumed to have meaning, and we do not construe statutes so as to render certain words and phrases surplusage’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “in interpreting a statute, we do not interpret some clauses of a statute in a manner that nullifies other clauses but, rather, read the statute as a whole in order to reconcile all of its parts”
• this court will not interpret statute “to reach ... a bizarre or absurd result”
• “[w]e will not interpret [a statute] to reach ... a bizarre or absurd result”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).