Termnet Merchant Services, Inc. v. Phillips

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[i]n its ordinary signification, ‘shall’ is a word of command, and the context ought to be very strongly persuasive before that word is softened into a mere permission[.]”
• “[T]he trial court is without discretion to deny fees under [OCGA §] 13-1-11 when all the conditions of that statute are unquestionably satisfied.”
• “When construing statutory phrases,... we note that in its ordinary signification, ‘shall’ is a word of command, and the context ought to be very strongly persuasive before that word is softened into a mere permission.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).