Commonwealth v. County Board of Arlington County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the test in application of the doctrine [of implied powers] is reasonableness, in which concern for what is necessary to promote the public interest is a key element”
• authority to bargain with public employee union not implied from power to enter into contracts, to hire employees, and to fix terms and conditions of employment
• grant of power to school boards to enter contracts, hire employees, and set employment terms did not imply power to enter collective bargaining agreements
• authority to bargain with public employee union not implied from power to enter into contracts, to hire employees, and to fix terms and conditions of employment
• “School boards ... constitute public quasi corporations that exercise limited powers and functions of a public nature granted to them expressly or by necessary implication, and none other....” (emphasis added
• “the rule is clear that, where a power is conferred and the mode of its execution is specified, no other method may be selected; any other means would be contrary to legislative intent and, therefore, unreasonable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).