People v. District Court in and for Chaffee County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that state officials may not act beyond the authority conferred by applicable statutes
• stating that powers of state officials and employees are limited to authority expressly provided by statute governing their actions
• “‘Public officers cannot bind the government they represent by acts outside their express authority.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).