City of Jefferson v. Whipple

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “[t]he judiciary’s role should not be to write competitive bidding procedure into municipal sales on a case-by-case basis”
• awarding fees to litigant whose case led to greater fairness in a city’s public bidding procedures
• prevailing party entitled to attorney’s fees after it succeeded in setting aside a sale of municipal property that was based on an unfair public bidding procedure
• “A public bidding procedure that places a bidder at a disadvantage violates the public interest in according prospective bidders an equal opportunity to bid and weakens public confidence in government.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).