In Re the Welfare of J.B.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that when a “statute is phrased in common terms, we have declined to defer to administrative expertise”
• stating that we are “guided by the canon of statutory construction ‘ex-pressio unius est exclusio alteráis’ — that the expression of one thing is the exclusion of another”
• discussing the canon “expressio unius est exclusio alterius,” that “the expression of one thing is the exclusion of another”
• relying on section 611.14 to determine whether parents were entitled to public defender representation in juvenile protection proceedings
• “Resort to legislative history to interpret a statute is generally appropriate only where the statute itself is ambiguous.”
• “Resort to legislative history to interpret a statute is generally appropriate only where the statute itself is ambiguous.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).