City of Flagstaff v. Mangum

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that a bill’s rejection by the legislature “is an unsure and unreliable guide to statutory construction” because “one could also argue that the legislature considered the proposed legislation unnecessary”
• “Where the legislature uses a term within one [subsection] and excludes it from another, the term usually will not be read into the provision from which it was excluded.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).