Philip M O'Halloran Md v. Secretary of State

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] statute ought . . . to be so construed that . . . no clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant” (inter- nal quotation marks omitted)
• “It is ‘a cardinal principle of statutory construction’ that a ‘statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed . . . ”
• statutes should not be read to render a provision “entirely superfluous in all but the most unusual circumstances”
• \We avoid interpretations of a statute which would render portions of it superfluous.\
• “It is a cardinal principle of statutory construction that a statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed that, if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant.” (quotation marks omitted)
• “[N]o clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).