the State of Texas v. William Derek Groves

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that, while Massachusetts has legalized some forms of gambling, “because of the nature of the business,” it “can be abolished at any time that the Legislature may deem proper for the safeguarding and protection of the public welfare”
• refusing to apply last antecedent rule when doing so would conflict with dominant purpose of statute
• “[T]he Legislature is presumed ‘to know the preexisting law and the decisions of this court’ ”
• “if reasonably possible, all parts shall be construed as consistent with each other so as to form a harmonious enactment effectual to accomplish its manifest purpose”
• Legislature has authority to impose conditions on gambling that it \deem[s] necessary in the public interest\
• legislature “must be assumed to know the preexisting law and the decisions of this court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).