Hodgson v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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

• deciding the constitutionality of a referendum in the interests of “judicial economy” instead of requiring a party to seek an injunction at the superior court level
• defining the maxim to mean “express mention of one implies exclusion of all others”
• statute providing the secretary of state shall canvass votes and certify the results to the governor created a mandatory duty
• \[T]he rule of expressio unius est exclusio alterius d[oes] not necessarily apply without considering other factors which may persuade the court that legislative intent was the opposite of what the statutory construction rule would require.\
• “[T]he rule of ex-pressio unius est exclusio alterius d[oes] not necessarily apply without considering other factors which may persuade the court that legislative intent was the opposite of what the statutory construction rule would require.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).