Topic: where the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, t… · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 42 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Burgess v. Your House of Raleigh, Inc..

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1 Burgess v. Your House of Raleigh, Inc. Anchor
· 1990
green “where the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, there is no room for judicial construction and the courts must construe the statute using its plain meaning.” 38
2 Lunsford v. Mills
nc · 2014
green “in effectuating legislative intent, it is our duty to give effect to the words actually used in a statute and not to delete words used or to insert words not used.” 4

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