City of Virginia Beach v. Hay

How courts have described this case

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• holding that assistant city attorney was excluded from city’s grievance process
• noting that reasonableness “will depend upon the circumstances of each case”
• power to hire employees was “fairly and necessarily implied” from city charter provisions establishing a legal department and directing the city council to provide for employees
• “[T]he chosen method is unreasonable if it is contrary to legislative intent or inappropriate for the ends sought to be accomplished by the grant of the power.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).