· 3/20/1986
Johnson v. Feder
Citations
- 485 So. 2d 409
- 11 Fla. L. Weekly 120
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- adopting the holding of McShay v. State, 447 So.2d 444 (Fla. 2d DCA 1984)
- “We are compelled by well-established norms of statutory construction to choose that interpretation of statutes and rules which renders their provisions meaningful.”
- “Statutory interpretations that render statutory provisions superfluous are, and should be, disfavored.” (internal 12 quotation marks omitted)
- courts are not to presume that a given statute employs useless language
- not to be presumed that a statute contains useless language
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Judges: Barkett
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