Forsythe v. Longboat Key Beach Erosion

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the pre-amendment version’s plain text provided that a special district with territory in multiple counties was an independent special district requiring legislative authorization
• noting that it is a cardinal rule of statutory construction that courts should avoid readings that render parts of the statute meaningless
• stating that \[i]t is a fundamental principle of statutory construction that where the language of a statute is plain and unambiguous there is no occasion for judicial interpretation.\
• noting that courts should avoid interpretations that would render part of a statute meaningless
• related provisions of a statute should be read in pari materia in order to achieve a consistent whole
• \It is axiomatic that all parts of a statute must be read together in order to achieve a consistent whole.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).