National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc., Plaintiffs and Appellants v. State of California, Defendant And…

Summary

The court held that the statutory maxim that the law never requires impossibilities is an interpretive aid, not an independent basis for invalidating a later-enacted statute. Although impossibility may sometimes support an implied exception consistent with legislative intent, it did not authorize invalidating the dual-placement microstamping requirement. The court therefore reversed the Court of Appeal and directed it to affirm the trial court's judgment.