Republic Investment Fund I v. Town of Surprise

How courts have described this case

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

• suggesting that failure to meet one part dooms the statute under special laws analysis
• limiting class to “territory from a city or town having a population of less than ten thousand persons according to the 1980 United States decennial census” (emphasis omitted)
• “A law may be general and still apply to only one entity, if that entity is the only member of a legitimate class.”
• “An entire statute need not be declared unconstitutional if constitutional portions can be separated.”
• “A statute worded so as to admit entry and exit from the class implies that the class formation was separate from consideration of particular persons, places, or things and, thus, not intended as special or local in operation.”
• annexation created an island of unincorporated land within the town’s border

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).