Attorney General v. Sheriff of Suffolk County

How courts have described this case

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

• “Courts have traditionally issued orders and injunctions directing public officials to carry out their obligations”
• “where the means of carrying out [a] statutory duty is within the discretion of the public official, courts normally will not direct how the public official should exercise that statutory duty”
• “court must have power to carry out its obligation[s]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).