California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Gillotti v. Stewart, 11 Cal.App.5th 875, 217 Cal.Rptr.3d 860 (Cal. App. 2017):
Inserting additional language into a statute violates the cardinal rule of statutory construction that courts must not add provisions to statutes. (People v. Guzman (2005) 35 Cal.4th 577, 587, 25 Cal.Rptr.3d 761, 107 P.3d 860 (Guzman ).)
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