City of Lawrence v. McArdle

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting liberal construction rule in favor of practicality test, holds initiative to equalize firefighters’ and police officers’ pay is outside scope of initiative right
• rejecting liberal construction rule in favor of practicality test, holds initiative to equalize firefighters' and police officers' pay is outside scope of initiative right
• “[W]e have never adopted a 'liberal’ view of the matters which should be subject to initiative and referendum, but quite the contrary.”
• ordinance establishing salary classifications for firefighters and police officers is administrative; ordinance prescribes details of a previously adopted general plan
• proposal to equalize salaries of firefighters and police officers held not the proper subject of initiative power
• proposal to equalize salaries of firefighters and police officers held not the proper subject of initiative power

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