White v. Warden, Nevada State Prison

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• holding that if a statute is clear on its face, the court cannot go beyond the statute in determining legislative intent
• holding that if a statute is clear on its face, the court cannot go beyond the statute in determining legislative intent
• \This court will avoid consideration of constitutional questions when such consideration is unnecessary to the determination of an appeal.\
• statutes must be construed in light of their purpose as a whole

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).