Dortch v. Lugar

How courts have described this case

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• holding that absent specific property rights in continuous employment, police officers are removable at will, without cause or a hearing
• upholding as constitutional “Unigov” legislation reorganizing local municipal and county government for counties with cities of the first class, i.e., for Marion County
• upholding as constitutional \Unigov\ legislation reorganizing local municipal and county government for counties with cities of the first class, i.e., for Marion County
• upholding act reorganizing municipal government in Indianapolis and Marion County, “we are permitted to indulge in a very liberal interpretation rather than a critical and strict construction calculated to defeat the act”
• explaining former Appellate Rule 8.3, the precursor to current Rule 46
• upholding the constitutionality of the Unigov Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).