State ex rel. Gremillion v. Klause

How courts have described this case

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

• acknowledging that ―when a choice has to be made between two readings of what conduct [the legislature] has made a crime,‖ this court should not choose the ―harsher alternative‖ but instead should require the legislature to speak in language that is ―clear and definite‖
• endorsing the “presumption that identical words used in different parts of the same act are intended to have the same meaning” (quoting Gen. Dynamics Land Sys., Inc. v. Cline, 540 U.S. 581, 595 (2004))
• “Although the District of Columbia has been constituted ‘as a body corporate for municipal purposes’ . . . [it] has been variously compared to or described as a state, territory, or municipality , and sometimes it has simply been called ‘unique.’” (citation omitted)
• discussing the District‘s felony threats statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).