Brennan v. the Governor

How courts have described this case

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

• “Statements regarding the scope or purpose of an act that appear in its preamble may aid the construction of doubtful clauses . . .”
• no statutory language indicating that Legislature intended particular consequence to result from failure to comply with statute
• “Statements regarding the scope or purpose of an act that appear in its preamble may aid the construction of doubtful clauses, but they cannot control the plain provisions of the statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).