Town Tobacconist v. Kimmelman

How courts have described this case

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• ‘When a statute’s constitutionality is doubtful, a court has the power to engage in ‘judicial surgery’ and through appropriate construction restore the statute to health.”
• “A law is void as a matter of due process if it is so vague that persons ‘of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application.’” (quoting Connally v. Gen. Constr. Co., 269 U.S. 385, 391 (1926))
• \A law is void as a matter of due process if it is so vague that persons 'of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application.' \ (quoting Connally v. Gen. Constr. Co. , 269 U.S. 385 , 391, 46 S.Ct. 126 , 70 L.Ed. 322 (1926) )

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).