SC Coastal Council v. SC STATE ETHICS COMM.

How courts have described this case

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

• court should look at whole statute, not just isolated clause
• applying this rule of construction to a statutory provision
• “[I]n interpreting a statute, [this court] does not look merely at a particular clause in which a word may be used, but rather looks at the word and its meaning in conjunction with the purpose of the whole statute, and in light of the object and policy of the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).