Supreme Court· 11/13/2001

TRW Inc. v. Andrews

Citations

534 U.S. 19
122 S. Ct. 441
151 L. Ed. 2d 339
2001 U.S. LEXIS 10306

How courts have described this case

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

“[A] statute ought . . . to be so construed that . . . no clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant” (inter- nal quotation marks omitted)
“It is ‘a cardinal principle of statutory construction’ that a ‘statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed . . . ”
statutes should not be read to render a provision “entirely superfluous in all but the most unusual circumstances”
\We avoid interpretations of a statute which would render portions of it superfluous.\
“It is a cardinal principle of statutory construction that a statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed that, if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant.” (quotation marks omitted)
“[N]o clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant.”

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Judges: Ginsburg, O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia, Stevens

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