Heart of Adoptions, Inc. v. JA

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a word may not be “construed in isolation if to do so would render other sections of the chapter meaningless” and “courts should avoid readings that would render part of a statute meaningless”
• stating the general principle of statutory construction that “legislative intent is determined primarily from the statute's text”
• “Moreover, a basic rule of statutory construction provides that the Legislature does not intend to enact useless provisions, and courts should avoid readings that would render part of a statute meaningless.” (internal quotation and citation omitted)
• “[r]elated statutory provisions must be read together to achieve a consistent whole, and . . . where possible, courts must give full effect to all statutory provisions and construe related statutory provisions in harmony with one another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).