Beck v. Shelton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that courts are bound by the plain meaning of statutory language
• holding that courts are bound by the plain meaning of statutory language
• “While it is not binding on this Court, an Opinion of the Attorney General is ‘entitled to due consideration.’”
• when General Assembly was aware of interpretation of statute embodied in an Opinion of the Attorney General for five years and “fail[ed] to make corrective amendments” to statute during that time, such “failure . . . evinces legislative acquiescence in the Attorney General’s view”

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