Arizona Department of Revenue v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.

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• stating Arizona courts will interpret a statute contrary to its plain meaning “only if necessary to effectuate the legislature’s clearly expressed contrary intent or to avoid an absurd result that the legislature could not in any event have intended”
• “The determination to award or decline attorney’s fees [pursuant to Rule 25] is within this Court’s discretion.”
• “The determination to award or decline attorney‟s fees [pursuant to Rule 25] is within this Court‟s discretion.”
• “Where the legislature has used a particular term in one place in a statute and has excluded it in another place in the same statute, a court should not read that term into the provision from which the legislature has not chosen to omit it.”
• “Where the 8 legislature has used a particular term in one place in a statute and has excluded it in another 9 place in the same statute, a court should not read that term into the provision from which 10 the legislature has chosen to omit it.”

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