Bush v. Holmes

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing the general rule that it is not the court’s role to reweigh competing policy concerns underlying a legislative enactment
• determining that article IX, section 1(a) was a restriction on the Legislature’s spending power by “provid[ing] both a mandate to provide for children’s education and a restriction on the execution of that pian-date”
• “As a general rule, courts may not reweigh the competing policy concerns underlying a legislative enactment.”
• “Ambiguity suggests that reasonable persons can find different meanings in the same language.” (quoting Forsythe v. Longboat Key Beach Erosion Control Dist., 604 So. 452, 455 (Fla. 1992))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).