Vera v. Swift & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• statutes that relate to the same matter are considered to be in pari materia and must be read together as a whole
• “recourse to dictionary definitions is unnecessary when the Legislature’s intent can be determined from reading the statute itself.”
• \[R]ecourse to dictionary definitions is unnecessary when the Legislature's intent can be determined from reading the statute itself.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).