School Board of Palm Beach County v. Survivors Charter Schools, Inc.

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• recognizing that an “elementary principle of statutory construction [is] that significance and effect must be given to every word, phrase, sentence, and part of the statute if possible, and words in a statute should not be construed as mere surplusage.” (citation omitted)
• “[W]e give full effect to all statutory provisions and construe related statutory provisions in harmony with one another.”
• “Where, as here, the [L]egislature has not defined the words used in a [statute], the language should be given its plain and ordinary meaning.” (alterations in original)
• second ah teration in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).