Leonard v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that either express actual authority or implied actual authority must have been given to the District employee alleged to have bound the District for the agreement to be binding
• “[T]he normal rule is that verbs such as “must” or “shall” denote mandatory requirements . . . unless such construction is ‘inconsistent with the manifest intent of the legislature or repugnant to the context of the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).