E Coast Investments, LLC v. James Delia

How courts have described this case

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• stating that courts presume the Legislature intended for all the words in a statute to have meaning and for none of them to be useless
• stating that courts presume the Legislature intended for all the words in a statute to have meaning and for none of them to be useless
• stating that a statute should be analyzed as a “cohesive, contextual whole[.]”
• directing appellate courts to “analyze a statute as a cohesive, contextual whole, accepting that lawmaker-authors chose their words carefully, both in what they included and in what they excluded”
• “faithful to the . . . statute’s plain language and . . . consistent with the larger statutory framework”
• “[T]he ‘material contained in unindented texts relates to all the following indented subparts.’” (ellipsis omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).