Bullock v. Calvert

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Secretary’s title “chief election officer” is not “a delegation of authority to care for any breakdown in the election process”
• holding that even if legislature had appropriated funds to officer for a particular purpose, officer must also have statutory authority to enter into contract for that purpose
• holding that even if legislature had appropriated funds to officer for a particular purpose, officer must also have statutory authority to enter into contract for that purpose
• holding that even if legislature had appropriated funds to officer for a particular purpose, officer must also have statutory authority to enter into contract for that purpose
• holding that even if legislature had appropriated funds to officer for a particular purpose, officer must also have statutory authority to enter into contract for that purpose
• noting that governmental bodies have only those powers expressly granted by statute and implied powers that are necessary to exercise the powers expressly granted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).