Densley v. Department of Retirement Systems

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where the legislature used “‘active federal service in the military or naval forces’” in one subsection and “‘service in the armed forces’” in another, the legislature meant two different things
• “When the legislature uses two different terms in the same statute, courts presume the legislature intends the terms to have different meanings.”
• “When the legislature uses two different terms in the same statute, courts presume the legislature intends the terms to have different meanings.”
• “two different terms in the same statute” are presumed to “have different meanings”
• “Statutory construction cannot be used to read additional words into the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).