Browder v. International Fidelity Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the canon stating that remedial statutes should be liberally construed applies only when the statute is ambiguous
• recognizing that “the presumption is that ‘shall’ is mandatory”
• stating that use of the world “shall” indicates something that is mandatory
• recognizing “may” as a “permissive” rather than mandatory word
• \[t]he primary purpose of statutory construction is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the Legislature\
• “A basic rule of statutory construction is that where the Legislature uses certain and unambiguous language, the plain meaning of the statute must be followed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).