United States v. Forey-Quintero

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the canon against surplusage is a “basic premise of statutory construction” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that such status is required
• agreeing with Romero-Ruiz that “requiring anything less than the status of lawful permanent resident would essentially render the first clause of subsection 5 ‘mere surplusage’”
• “Because this is solely a matter of statutory interpretation, we must start with the language of the statute itself.”
• “A basic premise of statutory construction is that a statute is to be interpreted so that no words shall be discarded as being meaningless, redundant, or mere sur- plusage.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).