Lumpkin v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “pending” means that an event is “impending, or about to take place”
• holding that “pending” means that an event is “impending, or about to take place”
• holding that “pending” means that an event is “impending, or about to take place”
• holding that “pending” means that an event is “impending, or about to take place”
• determining that “pending” means “impending or about to take place”
• explaining that although “pending” and “in progress” appear synonymous based on one definition of “pending,” courts generally presume that “every word in a statute has been used for a purpose and that each word, phrase, clause, and sentence should be given effect if reasonably possible”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).