City of Manassas v. Board of County Supervisors

How courts have described this case

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

• “[C]ertain equitable defenses, such as laches, do not apply to state or local governments when acting in a governmental capacity.”
• while courts will not permit parties to be released from obligations that they have assumed, Virginia courts nevertheless “cannot make contracts for the parties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).