Hampton v. Helms

How courts have described this case

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• holding that only the individuals listed in the statute have standing to petition for guardianship
• stating that “normally the expression of one thing in a statute implies the exclusion of another”
• under customary rule of statutory construction, legislature does not enact unnecessary provisions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).