Cities of Austin v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that statutory provisions should be considered in relation to the act as a whole, rather than in isolation
• stating that a court will construe a statute that is subject to a \long-standing administrative construction\ that the legislature has not amended since the administrative construction was articulated \as the agency did\
• stating that a court will construe a statute that is subject to a “long-standing administrative construction” that the legislature has not amended since the administrative construction was articulated “as the agency did”
• reiterating that an appellate court begins with the words used by the Legislature
• reiterating that an appellate court begins with the words used by the Legislature
• stating that court generally construes “shall” “as mandatory, unless legislative intent suggests otherwise”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).