Alston & Bird, LLP v. Hatcher Management Holdings, LLC

312 Ga. 350

FINAL COPY S20G1419. ALSTON & BIRD, LLP v. HATCHER MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS, LLC. PETERSON, Justice. We interpret statutory text in the light of the text’s broader context, both within and without the statute. But we consider that context only for the light that it sheds on the meaning of the relevant text; it does not empower us to delete some words and insert others. And so when we interpret unambiguous statutory text that appears not to serve the purpose we imagine the statute to have, we must follow the path of the text, not the apparently different path of the “purpose.” And so it…