District of Columbia v. Morrissey

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “prosecutions on information” is terminology commonly used in criminal proceedings
• noting this court conducts de novo review where “[t]he construction of a statute raises a clear question of law.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “each provision of the statute should be construed so as to give effect to all of the statute’s provisions, not rendering any provision superfluous”
• “[I]f the words are clear and unambiguous, we must give effect to its plain meaning.” (internal quotation mark omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).