Derby Refining Co. v. Board of Aldermen of Chelsea

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• stating that once a license has issued, it becomes the vested property right of the licensee, and revocation of the license must comport with due process protections
• “Once a license already has issued ... it becomes a vested property right of the licensee, and may be revoked only when due process protections are complied with”
• dammable storage license, when issued, “becomes a vested property right of the licensee,” but before the relevant statute had been amended in 1945, such a license “did not vest as a property right upon issuance, but only upon its being exercised by the licensee”

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