State v. Crescent Cities Jaycees Foundation, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• where we pointed out that courts give “full sway to the legislative intention so clearly expressed in § [12-113] that the gaming law prohibitions be liberally construed to prevent the evils inherent in gambling”
• “[W]e do not read particular language in a statute in isolation or out of context; rather, we construe statutory language in light of the Legislature’s general purpose and in the context of the statute as a whole.”
• card game is a \gaming device\ for purposes of the gambling laws

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).