Dorchy v. Kansas

How courts have described this case

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

• \A statute bad in part is not necessarily void in its entirety. Provisions within the legislative power may stand if separable from the bad\
• in ruling on claim under the federal law, United States Supreme Court may decide whether unconstitutional section of state statute is severable or may leave that determination to the state court
• “Where the legislature attempts to do several things one of which is invalid it may be discarded if the re- mainder of the act is workable and in no way dependent upon the invalid portion.”
• “Where the legislature attempts to do several things one of which is invalid it may be discarded if the re- mainder of the act is workable and in no way dependent upon the invalid portion.”
• “Where the legislature attempts to do several things one of which is invalid it may be discarded if the re- mainder of the act is workable and in no way dependent upon the invalid portion.”
• “Where the legislature attempts to do several things one of which is invalid it may be discarded if the re- mainder of the act is workable and in no way dependent upon the invalid portion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).