Richardson & Co. v. Gaither

How courts have described this case

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• city cannot do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly
• “option to extend” in a competitively bid municipal contract was “nothing more than an agreement by the parties to negotiate for an extension of the duration of the original contract”; the resulting second contract was void for not being competitively bid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).