Knotts v. S.C. Department of Natural Resources

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the touchstone for sever-ability under South Carolina law is whether the unconstitutional part of a statute is so intertwined and interdependent with the remainder of the statute to indicate that the legislature intended for the statute to remain as a whole
• noting the appellant bore the burden of proving the statute unconstitutional
• noting the appellant bore the burden of proving the statute unconstitutional
• noting the appellant bore the burden of proving the statute unconstitutional
• “What a legislature says in the text of a statute is considered the best evidence of the legislative intent or will.”
• “If a statute’s language is plain, unambiguous, and conveys a clear meaning ‘the rules of statutory interpretation are not needed and the court has no right to impose another meaning.’” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).