Duncan v. Walker

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting a statutory construction that would render a term “insignificant, if not wholly superfluous”
• “[A] statute ought, upon the whole, to be 11 so construed that, if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, 12 or insignificant” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).