Shell Oil Co. v. City of Revere

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding municipal ordinance banning self-service gas stations on basis of purposes which city could have had in mind
• upholding ban of self-service gas stations “[wjhether the ordinance was a response to actual instances of customer misuse or an attempt to forestall such problems . . .”
• courts express no view whether summary judgment would have been appropriate in challenges to State law and municipal ordinance, respectively
• court considers “evidence which may have been available to the Legislature” [emphasis added]
• if question is at least debatable or arguable, legislation will be upheld
• \we express no views on whether the judge could have granted summary judgment ... [or] a motion to dismiss ... rather than have a protracted hearing\ on constitutional challenge that legislation was without rational basis [citations omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).