Oregon Supreme Court· 9/22/2011

State v. Cloutier

Citations

261 P.3d 1234
351 Or. 68
2011 Ore. LEXIS 711

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explaining that “the fact that a proposed interpretation of a stat- ute creates some measure of redundancy is not, by itself, necessarily fatal”
stating that dictionaries tell us what “words can mean, depending on their context and the particular manner in which they are used”
explaining that ‘the fact that a proposed inter- pretation of a statute creates some measure of redundancy is not, by itself, necessarily fatal’
explaining that our analysis of a statute is “informed by this court’s prior construction of that statute or its predecessors”
explaining that our analysis of a statute is “informed by this court’s prior construction of that statute or its predecessors”
noting that dictionaries “do not tell us what words mean, only what words can mean, depending on their context and the particular manner in which they are used” (emphasis in original)

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Judges: Landau

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