City of San Antonio v. City of Boerne

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• holding that the purpose of statutory construction is to give effect to every part
• stating that we shall also “consider at all times the old law, the evil, and the remedy”
• recognizing that, in construing a statute, appellate court determines legislative intent from the entire act and not just its isolated portions and, thus, reads the statute as a whole and interprets it to give effect to every part
• holding that statutes and rules are subject to de novo review
• holding that statutes and rules are subject to de novo review
• holding that statutes and rules are subject to de novo review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).