Doris v. Police Commissioner of Boston

How courts have described this case

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• \The public interest in the enforcement of the laws of the Commonwealth cannot be defeated by failures of public officials to perform their duties\
• statutory residency requirement for police officers valid despite local nature of subject because there is no restriction in § 8 on subject matter of statute of general applicability
• application of doctrine of equitable estoppel to bar enforcement of statute previously unenforced is contrary to public interest in enforcement of laws
• statutory residency requirement for police officers valid de spite local nature of subject because there is no restriction in § 8 on subject matter of statute of general applicability
• inattention or inactivity of government officials does not render a statute unenforceable so as to deprive the public of the benefits and protections afforded by the legislature
• inattention or inactivity of government officials does not render a statute unenforceable so as to deprive the public of the benefits and protections afforded by the legislature

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).