· 6/23/1975
Board of Com'rs v. Kokomo City Plan Com'n
Citations
- 330 N.E.2d 92
- 263 Ind. 282
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “a state may act as parens patriae on behalf of its citizens”
- “We conceive [Article 1, Section 1 of the Indiana Constitution] as guaranteeing civil and political rights to all the human inhabitants of the state …. The county has no political or civil rights which this provision would protect against infringement by the state.”
- counties cannot act as par-ens patriae
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Judges: De Bruler
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