Sweatt v. Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• stating that statutory terms are not construed in a vacuum; rather, they must be read in context
• words in a statute should not be construed in the void, but should be read together to harmonize the meaning in order to give effect to the act as a whole

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).