Walter v. Wilkinson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that use of the word “may” in a statute generally indicates permissive intent, while “shall” generally indicates a mandatory provision
• “And, in fact, use of the word ‘may’ generally indicates permissive intent, while ‘shall’ generally indicates a mandatory provision.”
• “If a statute employs both mandatory and discretionary terms, we may infer . . . that each term carries its ordinary meaning.”
• “If a statute employs both mandatory and discretionary terms, we may infer that . . . each term carr[ies] its ordinary meaning.”
• “In interpreting statutes, we must strive to „find and give effect to legislative intent,‟ and to interpret the statute so as to give it a fair and sensible meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).