Jewel Companies, Inc. v. Town of Burlington

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• certain retail stores required to remain closed between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.
• “When legislative authority is exerted within a proper area, it need not embrace every conceivable problem within that field. The Legislature may proceed one step at a time, addressing itself to the phase of the problem which seems most acute to the legislative mind”
• \a demurrer will not be sustained ... merely because the court is convinced the plaintiff will fail on the merits but only where the bill on its face fails to state a controversy proper for determination under the declaratory procedure\ [quotation and citation omitted]

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