Pickering v. Human Rights Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• an administrative agency can act only “pursuant to the authority conferred on it by statute”
• “An administrative agency is analogous to a court of limited jurisdiction and can act only pursuant to the authority conferred on it by statute.”
• an administrative agency, like a court of limited jurisdiction, can only act “pursuant to the authority conferred on it by statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).