Kragnes v. City of Des Moines

How courts have described this case

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

• holding any fees charged by a city must be reasonably related to the city’s administrative expenses in the exercise of its police power
• holding any fees charged by a city must be reasonably related to the city’s administrative expenses in the exercise of its police power
• declaring similar charge on gas and electric services to be an unauthorized and illegal tax
• declaring similar charge on gas and electric services to be an unauthorized and illegal tax
• “Unless there is clear evidence to the contrary, we assume that when the legislature enacts a law, it is aware of the existing state of the law and our prior interpretations of similar statutory provisions.”
• declaring similar charge to be an unauthorized and illegal tax

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).