Pennypack Manor Nursing Home, Inc. v. Petrella

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that “the term ‘reasonably appears’ is susceptible of subjective application among persons enforcing the regulation and those who must abide by it”
• explaining that laws must be sufficiently clear to allow the public to distinguish between lawful and unlawful conduct
• stating that a penal statute must \define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement'\
• stating that a penal statute must “define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement’”
• “Kolender, however, indicated that ‘[t]his concern has, at times, led us to invalidate a criminal statute on its face even when it could conceivably have had some valid application.’” (alteration in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).