Campbell v. Superior Court, County of Maricopa

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there is a presumption that legislatures do not intend to act in a futile manner by including a provision that is not operative or that is inert or trivial
• final conviction is one as to which motor vehicle operator has exhausted his right to appeal
• “[Statutes should be construed as a whole with the purpose of the statute not being frustrated by a literal application of its terms.”
• \[S]tatutes should be construed as a whole with the purpose of the statute not being frustrated by a literal application of its terms.\
• “[W]e must be guided by the presumption that the legislature did not intend to do a futile act by including a provision which is not operative or that is inert and trivial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).