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· 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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