Kennedy v. Carlton

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the General Assembly’s express use of a specific term in a statute was intentional and not “mere surplusage” (punctuation omitted)
• courts should “avoid[ ] a statutory construction that will render some of the statutory language mere surplusage”
• “A plea of guilty does not waive the defense that an indictment charges no crime.”
• we must avoid \a statutory construction that will render some of the statutory language mere surplusage\
• statutes are to be construed to “avoid[] a statutory construction that will render some of the statutory language mere surplusage”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).