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· 3/16/2011

Hope School District v. Wilson

Citations

  • 382 S.W.3d 782
  • 2011 Ark. App. 219
  • 2011 Ark. App. LEXIS 233

How courts have described this case

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

  • “We may look beyond the plain language of [the statute] — and resort to extrinsic aids ... — only if the statute is ambiguous.”
  • “We may look beyond the plain language of [the statute] — and resort to extrinsic aids ... — only if the statute is ambiguous.”
  • “the legislature’s use of different terms [in different statutory provisions] is presumed to be intentional and for a particular purpose” (cleaned up)
  • we will not insert terms the legislature omitted under the guise of statutory construction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Gladwin, Martin, Vaught

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