Dept. of Bus. Reg. v. Classic Mile, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a statute relating to thoroughbred horse races which applied to only one county, with no possibility that it would ever apply to any other county, was a special law
• explaining that the “fact that matters” in determining whether a reasonable relationship exists and, thus, whether the law is a special law is whether it creates an open or a closed class
• explaining that the “fact that matters” in determining whether a reasonable relationship exists and, thus, whether the law is a special law is whether it creates an open or a closed class
• declaring statute unconstitutional because conditions only applied to Marion County, could never apply to others, and the appellants made no attempt to demonstrate a reasonable relationship between the classification and the subject of the statute
• declaring statute unconstitutional because conditions only applied to Marion County, could never apply to others, and the appellants made no attempt to demonstrate a reasonable relationship between the classification and the subject of the statute
• rejecting the argument that a pari-mutuel wagering statute was general despite its use of a closed class extending to a single county because it was “part of the overall statewide regulatory scheme for the parimutuel industry” and would generate revenue for the state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).