TEXAS DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS, ETC. v. Dalehite

How courts have described this case

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

• act is ministerial if “nothing is left to the exercise of discretion or judgment”
• act is ministerial “where the law clearly spells out the duty to be performed . . . with such certainty that nothing is left to the exercise of discretion or judgment”
• act is ministerial “where the law clearly spells out the duty to be performed . . . with such certainty that nothing is left to the exercise of discretion or judgment”
• an act is ministerial “where the law clearly spells out the duty to be performed . . . with such certainty that nothing is left to the exercise of discretion or judgment”
• act is ministerial “where the law clearly spells out the duty to be performed . . . with such certainty that nothing is left to the exercise of Lewis - 3 discretion or judgment”
• “An act is said to be ministerial where the law clearly spells out the duty to be performed by an official and does so with such certainty that nothing is left to the exercise of discretion or judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).