White v. County of Sacramento

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] court is to construe a statute so as to effectuate the purpose of the law.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Evidence that a qualifying phrase is supposed to apply to all antecedents instead of only to the immediately preceding one may be found in the fact that it is separated from the antecedents by a comma.”
• pro-viding two exceptions to the last antecedent rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).