State Employees Ass'n Local 1984 v. New Hampshire Division of Personnel

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• noting the “elementary principle of statutory construction that all of the words of a statute must be given effect and that the legislature is presumed not to have used superfluous or redundant words” (quotation omitted)
• noting the “elementary principle of statutory construction that all of the words of a statute must be given effect and that the legislature is presumed not to have used superfluous or redundant words” (quotation omitted)
• “[W]here the legislature uses different language in related statutes, we assume that the legislature intended something different.” (quotation omitted)
• we will not add language that the legislature did not see fit to include

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).