Johnson v. District Attorney for the Northern District

How courts have described this case

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

• \The word 'shall' in a statute is commonly a word of imperative obligation and is inconsistent with the idea of discretion\
• “The word ‘shall’ is ordinarily interpreted as having a mandatory or imperative obligation”
• use of “shall” in statute is “inconsistent with the idea of discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).