Gordon v. Phillips Utilities, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting it is presumed that the General Assembly intended to accomplish something by its choice of words and would not do a futile thing
• noting it is presumed that the General Assembly intended to accomplish something by its choice of words and would not do a futile thing
• “[T]he legislature intends to accomplish something by its choice of words, and would not do a futile thing.”
• it is presumed that the General Assembly intended to accomplish something by its choice of words and would not do a futile thing
• “The primary purpose in construing a statute is to ascertain legislative intent.”
• “The primary purpose in construing a statute is to ascertain legislative intent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).