Bright v. Unsatisfied Claim & Judgment Fund Board

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that absent a specific statutory provision, an administrative agency may not waive or extend a mandatory filing deadline.
• observing that “ordinarily the word ‘shall,’ unless the context within which it is used indicates otherwise, is mandatory when used in a statute, and thus denotes an imperative obligation inconsistent with the idea of discretion.”
• “This is true ... even if ... the policy or impact of the legislation is unwise or harsh.”
• absent clear indication of contrary legislative purpose, \shall\ is presumed to be used in mandatory sense
• “[W]e observe[d] that ordinarily the word ‘shall,’ unless the context within which it is used indicates otherwise, is mandatory when used in a statute, and thus denotes an imperative obligation inconsistent with the idea of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).