Falls Township v. McManamon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that long-term contract between police chief and outgoing supervisors was invalid
• providing that contract purported to bind successor municipal government in exercise of governmental functions void as against public policy
• invalidating a holdover police-chief employment contract entered into by a lame-duck board of supervisors
• invalidating a holdover police-chief employment contract entered into by a lame-duck board of supervisors
• where the same “lame duck” Board of Supervisors dismissed the chief of police and entered into a three-year contract with a new chief of police on November 26, 1985 and the Court held the contract invalid as against public policy

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