Arizona State Board for Charter Schools v. U.S. Department of Education

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “well-accepted rules of statutory construction caution us that ‘statutory inter- pretations which would produce absurd results are to be avoided’ ” (citation omitted)
• observing that in interpreting a statute it is for this court to “ascertain—neither to add nor subtract, neither to delete nor to distort” the text
• “Using a common-sense construction . . . , the term ‘including’ indicates that [which follows] is an illustrative subset of the preceding principle . . . .”
• observing that a court may not add or subtract statutory text
• stating that a court may not “subtract” statutory text
• “[W]ell-accepted rules of statutory 24 construction caution us that ‘statutory interpretations which would produce absurd results are to be 25 avoided.’” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).