Discover Bank Discover Financial Services, Incorporated v. Betty E. Vaden

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• explaining that “courts must give effect to every provision and word in a statute and avoid any interpretation that may render statutory terms meaningless or superfluous” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• \We thus hold that a federal court possesses subject-matter jurisdiction over a case when the controversy underlying the arbitration agreement presents a federal question.\
• “We thus hold that a federal court possesses subject-matter jurisdiction over a case when the controversy underlying the arbitration agree ment presents a federal question.”
• “[W]here Congress knows how to say something but chooses not to, its silence is controlling.”
• “It is a classic canon of statutory construction that courts must give effect to every provision and word in a statute and avoid any interpretation that may render statutory terms meaningless or superfluous.”
• “It is a classic canon of statutory construction that courts must ‘give effect to every provision and word in a statute and avoid any interpretation that may render statutory terms meaningless or superfluous.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).