Sonitrol of Maricopa County v. City of Phoenix

How courts have described this case

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

• “general principle that statutes should be construed to avoid rendering any portion meaningless or superfluous” not applicable when language of statute is clear on its face
• “general principle that statutes should be construed to avoid rendering any portion meaningless or superfluous” not applicable when language of statute is clear on its face
• two subsections of city code that both had the effect of exempting charges for out-of-state transmissions from taxable income were not “merely duplicative” because they served distinct functions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).