Denene, Inc. v. City of Charleston

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Court must presume the legislature did not intend a futile act, but rather intended its statutes to accomplish something
• finding that this Court must presume the General Assembly did not intend a futile act, but rather intended its statutes to accomplish something
• stating it must be presumed the Legislature did not intend a futile act, but rather intended its statutes to accomplish something
• stating “[i]t would have been unnecessary for the legislature to refer to municipalities’ authority to regulate the hours of operation of retail sales of beer and wine if the General Assembly intended to occupy the entire field.”
• “Court must presume the legislature did not intend a futile act, but rather intended its statutes to accomplish something”
• it must be presumed the Legislature did not intend a futile act, but rather intended its statutes to accomplish something

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).