Park v. Johnston

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the court generally avoids construing a statute as redundant unless there is evidence that that is precisely what the legislature intended (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that the ordinary meaning of “subject to” can have the narrow meaning of “authorized by” or “under” but can also have a broader meaning of “affected by” or “mod- ified by”
• “As a general matter, this court will avoid reaching constitutional ques- tions in advance of the necessity of deciding them.” (Citation and quotation marks omitted.)
• “As this court noted in Gaines, one of the pitfalls that is ‘most fraught with the potential for misconstruction’ is reliance on the statement of a single legislator or witness to misattribute that person’s understanding of a provision to the legislative body as a whole.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).