Dennis v. Shaw

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘‘to construe [the statute] as creating by implication a civil liability . . . would violate the [long recognized] principle of statutory construction that penal statutes are to be construed strictly and not extended by implication’’
• ‘‘to construe [the statute] as creating by implication a civil liability . . . would violate the [long recognized] principle of statutory construction that penal statutes are to be construed strictly and not extended by implication’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).