in Re the Office of the Attorney General of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• “We construe the words of a statute according to their plain meaning, and in the context of the statute’s surroufiding provisions.’’
• “We construe the words of a statute according to their plain meaning and in the context of the statute’s surrounding provisions.”
• “[C]ourts should resist rulings anchored in hyper-technical readings of isolated words or phrases. The import of language, plain or not, must be drawn from the surrounding context . . . .”
• “When construing statutes, or anything else, one cannot divorce text from context.”
• “Given the enormous power of context to transform the meaning of language, … the import of language, plain or not, must be drawn from the surrounding context, particularly when construing everyday words and 9 phrases that are inordinately context-sensitive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).