Kraft, Inc. v. Edgar

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• holding that courts must not depart from a statute’s plain language by reading into it exceptions, limitations, or conditions the legislature did not express
• holding that courts must not depart from a statute's plain language by reading into it exceptions, limitations, or conditions the legislature did not express
• stating that “[i]n interpreting a statute, the primary rule *** is to ascertain and give effect to the true intent and meaning of the legislature”
• noting that statutes “should be construed so that no word or phrase is rendered superfluous or meaningless”
• stating that a statute should be read as a whole, and so that no word or phrase is rendered superfluous or meaningless
• stating that a statute should be read as a whole, and so that no word or phrase is rendered superfluous or meaningless

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