McCallen v. City of Memphis

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a decision was administrative because it executed rather than created law
• providing that “a crucial test in distinguishing legislative from administrative acts is whether the action taken (resolution or ordinance) makes new law or executes one already in existence”
• treating an action styled as a petition for a declaratory judgment as a petition for a writ of certiorari
• reciting the standard for writ of certiorari to review legislative acts of a municipality as whether any possible reason could be conceived to justify the ordinance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).