Bigelow Group, Inc. v. Rickert

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• tax statute amended from \the collector shall receive taxes on part of any property ...\, to \the collector may receive taxes on part of any property ...\
• even where a court has no direct power of judicial review over an act of another branch of government, it may review those acts for illegality
• courts will not inquire into the propriety of the reasoning behind discretionary executive determinations, “so long as the reasoning and decision are not, themselves, illegal”
• “The cardinal rule of statutory interpretation is to ascertain and give effect to the legislative intent, and the best indication of the legislative intent is the language used in the statute”
• even where a court has no direct power of judicial review over an act of another branch of government, it may review those acts for illegality

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