Chase Alexa, LLC v. Kent County Levy Court

How courts have described this case

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• noting that if a statute is unambiguous, the “plain meaning of the statutory language controls” (citation omitted)
• explaining that the purpose of statutory construction is “to ascertain and give effect to the intent of the legislature, as expressed in the statute”
• “Statutes must be construed as a whole, in a way that gives effect to all of their provisions and avoids absurd results.”
• “[W]ords in a statute should not be construed as surplusage if there is a reasonable construction which will give them meaning, and courts must ascribe a purpose to the use of statutory language, if reasonably possible.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).