Redington v. Cornwell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a variance decision was quasi-judicial where the board’s discretion was “tightly controlled” by the Forsyth County ordinance
• hearing was quasi-judicial where the zoning board exercised its own authority under zoning ordinance and its decision was binding and \akin to a judicial act\
• hearing was quasi-judicial where the zoning board exercised its own authority under zoning ordinance and its decision was binding and “akin to a judicial act”
• overruling a 21-year-old precedent and citing cases overruling 45-year-old, 38-year-old, and 18-year-old precedents
• overruling a 21-year-old precedent and citing cases overruling 45-year-old, 38-year-old, and 18-year-old precedents
• “[A]lthough the local-ordinance requirement is not unworkable, it is not as workable as the correct rule.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).