Civil Service Merit Board of City of Knoxville v. Burson

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding a statute with a population threshold because population growth could bring other counties under the statute in the future
• population threshold indicated that the statute could “become applicable to many other counties depending on subsequent population growth”
• a statute that applied “in all counties with a minimum population of 300,000 that do not have a mayor-alder-manic form of government” was constitutional
• one-year 12 Proposed Virgin Islands Constitution from the Fifth Constitutional Convention residence requirement for municipal civil service boards
• “There is no indication in the record that the issue was ever argued before the trial court. It has, therefore, been waived.”
• one-year residence requirement for municipal civil service boards

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).