Westly v. Board of City Commissioners

How courts have described this case

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

• interpreting a section of a statute that was specifically designated as a “declaration of policy,” and concluding that it was not a substantive part of the statute (quotation simplified)
• preambles do not “lay down . . . rule[s]” respecting the contents of the legislation
• a preamble “confers no substantive rights and is only a manifestation of legislative intent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).