Keljikian v. Star Brewing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that since the tenure of certain offices was secured to the plaintiffs “by the Constitution, the so-called civil service amendment, (article XII, § 13), the legislature has no power to deprive them of it.”
• legislation removing incumbent officers by abolishing office and creating a new position with substantially similar duties
• legislature authorized to abolish office of motor vehicle inspectors, but could not circumvent Civil Service Amendment by subsequently creating new office with substantially same duties and appointing new officers
• the General Assembly has the “power to abolish the office, but it may not avoid the Constitution by abolishing the office and creating a new one with duties substantially the same, to which new officers are appointed”

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