Dobbs v. Sea Isle Hotel

How courts have described this case

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

• \We have oft-times held that the rule ... is applicable in connection with statutory construction.\
• where the Legislature prescribes how a thing shall be done, it is, in effect a prohibition against its being done in any other way
• where a statute sets forth exceptions to its operation, no others may be implied to be intended
• express statutory mention of certain things is implied exclusion of things not mentioned — expressio unius est exclusio alterius
• a legislative direction as to how a thing shall be done is, in effect, a prohibition against its being done in any other way
• where the legislature provides express exceptions to the precise language of a statute, \[w]e must assume that it thoroughly considered and purposely preempted the field of exceptions to ... the statute\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).