Bracken v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• term “shall” “is not of inflexible signification and not infrequently is construed as permissive or directory in order to effectuate a legislative purpose”
• “the presumption is that [the election laws] are enacted to prevent fraud and to secure freedom of choice, and not by technical obstructions to make the right of voting insecure”
• “shall” becomes permissive when necessary to comply with dominant purpose

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).