J.D. M.M. v. Hon. hegyi/t.D./state of Arizona

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that when determining a statute’s meaning, words “cannot be read in isolation from the context in which they are used”
• explaining that, when interpreting a statute, the words “cannot be read in isolation from the context in which they are used”
• rejecting court of appeals’ statutory interpretation in part as in tension with statutory purpose, when legislature considered and rejected proposed amendment
• noting a proposed statutory interpretation “would be in tension with the fact the legislature, in enacting [the statute], rejected a proposed amendment” that would have followed the proposed interpretation
• rejecting an interpretation of a statute that would be “in tension with the 5 MOUNTAINSIDE, et al. v. FLAGSTAFF, et al. Opinion of the Court fact that the legislature . . . rejected a proposed amendment” that would support such an interpretation
• “Words in statutes . . . cannot be read in isolation from the context in which they are used.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).