Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. v. Harris

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[c]ourts should construe statutes to give effect to all provisions, and not to render any part meaningless”
• explaining that “when two statutes are in conflict, the more recently enacted statute controls the older statute”
• “Florida courts generally will defer to an agency’s interpretation of statutes and rules the agency is charged with implementing and enforcing.”
• “[W]hen two statutes are in conflict, the more recently enacted statute controls the older statute.”
• “[C]ourts are without power to diverge from the intent of the Legislature as expressed in the plain language of the [statute].”
• “[W]here two statutory provisions are in conflict, the specific statute controls the general statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).