City of Virginia Beach v. ESG Enterprises, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “we must assume that ‘the legislature chose, with care, the words it used when it enacted the relevant statute, and we are bound by those words as we interpret the statute’ ”
• “[W]hen analyzing a statute, we must assume that ‘the legislature chose, with care, the words it used . . . and we are bound by those words as we interpret the statute.’” (quoting Barr v. Town & Country Props., 240 Va. 292, 295 (1990))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).