Firemen's Insurance Company of Washington, D.C. v. Walter E. Washington

How courts have described this case

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

• “Congress may delegate to the District government that 'full legislative power, subject of course to Constitutional limitations to which all lawmaking is subservient ....’”
• “The District is a unique entity, more akin to a state than to a municipality.”
• “When Congress delegates its police power to the local government, that entity’s powers become as broad as those of Congress, limited only by the Constitution or specific Congressional enactment.”
• \In many respects the District is more akin to a state than to a municipality.\
• “In many respects the District is more akin to a state than to a municipality.”
• police power is a “flexible and dynamic concept”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).