Healthkeepers, Inc. v. Richmond Ambulance Authority

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that statutory analysis “includes employing various grammatical and structural canons of statutory interpretation which are helpful in guiding our reading of the text”
• adopting a limited definition in statute because “[o]th-erwise, the directive ‘[i]n subparagraph .2(A)(1)’ would be surplus language in the statute without any effect”
• recounting the normal rule that “Identical words used in different parts of the same act are intended to have the same meaning.”
• “Weighing the various canons of interpretation and reading the statute for plain meaning, we find that applying different definitions to a single term of art within this one statute would be both cumbersome and illogical.”
• \[S]tatutory construction ... is a holistic endeavor.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).