Laura Beeman and Janet Lock v. Brad Livingston, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice

How courts have described this case

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

• “[W]hen a word is used throughout a statute, we generally construe the statute to provide consistent meaning to that word.”
• “We often look to dictionary definitions for the ordinary meaning of a term used in, but undefined by, a statute.”
• “whether Livingston’s actions were ultra vires depends on whether the statute required anything of him”
• “Had the Legislature intended to include prisons, it could have easily said so.”
• if the Legislature had intended to include prisons as facilities that are open to the public in the statute, it clearly knew how to do so, but by its plain language, chose not to

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).