School Comm. of Greenfield v. Greenfield Educ. Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing “our duty to construe statutes so as to avoid . . . constitutional difficulties, if reasonable principles of interpretation permit”
• “It is our duty to construe statutes so as to avoid such constitutional difficulties, if reasonable principles of interpretation permit it”
• “It is our duty to construe statutes so as to avoid . . . constitutional difficulties, if reasonable principles of interpretation permit it”
• The doctrine of primary jurisdiction “does not apply . . . when the issue in controversy turns on questions of law which have not been committed to agency discretion”
• \It is axiomatic in statutory construction that the word 'shall' is an imperative and that the word 'may' does not impose a mandate but simply authorizes an act\
• “the word ‘may’ does not impose a mandate but simply authorizes an act”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).