Ewing v. Fahey

How courts have described this case

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

• “shall” is presumptively imperative, and operates to create a duty rather than confer discretion
• ‘Generally in construing statutes, ‘may’ is construed = as permissive... unless a different construction is demanded by the statute in order to carry out the clear intent of the legislature.” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• statutory construction presumption that statutes are consistent with common law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).