· 3/10/2008
Duvall v. South Carolina Budget & Control Board
Citations
- 659 S.E.2d 125
- 377 S.C. 36
- 2008 S.C. LEXIS 80
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- \The Court must presume the Legislature intended its statutes to accomplish something and did not intend a futile act.\
- \The Court must presume the Legislature intended its statutes to accomplish something and did not intend a futile act.\
- \The [c]ourt must presume the [l]egislature intended its statutes to accomplish something and did not intend a futile act.\
- “When the Legislature adopts an amendment to a statute, this [cjourt recognizes a presumption that the Legislature intended to change the existing law.”
- “When construing statutory language, the statute must be read as a whole, and sections which are part of the same general statutory law must be construed together and each one given effect.”
- “The Court must presume the Legislature intended its statutes to accomplish something and did not intend a futile act.” (citing TNS Mills, Inc. v. S.C. Dep’t of Revenue, 331 S.C. 611, 620, 503 S.E.2d 471, 476 (1998))
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Waller, Toal, Moore, Pleicones, Beatty
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