Sears v. Treasurer & Receiver General

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “public right” doctrine allows citizens to bring action for relief in nature of mandamus to procure enforcement of public duty
• distinguishing between the “expenditure of public money” and the substance of the legal claim
• State officers should not transform safeguards contained in art. 48 into “mere admonitions and recommendations”
• block quotation}}. . See, eg., Fairness & Accountability in Ins. Reform v. Greene, 180 Ariz. 582, 886 P.2d 1338, 1346 (1994
• “The people themselves and all branches of their government, legislative, executive, and judicial alike, are bound by [the Constitution] and owe to it implicit obedience”
• laches is not a defense to a constitutional challenge to a law's execution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).