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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 6 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Briseno v. City of Santa Ana.

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1 Briseno v. City of Santa Ana Anchor
calctapp · 1992
green “invalid provisions of a statute should be severed whenever possible to preserve the validity of the remainder of the statute.” 4
2 Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San Diego
cal · 1982
green “even if the statute following severability is not what the enacting body originally intended, the courts can sustain the statute if severance is mechanically feasible and the legislative body would have preferred such an outcome to total invalidation” 2

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