Louisiana ex rel. Schmidt v. Sanders

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• A court must “look first to the statute’s language. If the text, given its plain meaning, answers the interpretive question, the language must prevail and further inquiry is foreclosed.”
• “We look first to the statute’s language. If the text, given its plain meaning, answers the interpretive question, the language must prevail and further inquiry is foreclosed.” (internal quotations and citation omitted) (footnote omitted)
• A court must “look first to the statute's language. If the text, given its plain meaning, answers the interpretive question, the language must prevail, and further inquiry is foreclosed.”
• “Where a statute ... is technically deficient for constitutional reasons, this Court will apply the remedy and give the statute, wherever possible, an interpretation which will cure its defect and save it from total invalidation.”
• “In our opinion, the strength of a parent’s bond with his or her child is not dependent upon some official or traditional arrangement; rather, the strength derives from the parent’s personal and emotional investment and the relationship that develops from that investment.”
• “ ‘ “This Court will not pass on a nonjuris-dictional question which has not been decided by the trial court in the first instance.” Syllabus Point 2, Sands v. Security Trust Co., 143 W.Va. 622, 102 S.E.2d 733 (1958

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