Shirley Pittman, Individually and as Class Representatives v. Chicago Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when a statute creates a property right in job tenure the legislature may eliminate that right by amending the statute
• recognizing that “treat[ing] statutes as contracts would enormously curtail the operation of democratic government” and “creat[e] rights that could never be retracted”
• noting that tenure for school principals is “not a term in a contract,” but “a term in a statute, and a statute is presumed not to create contractual rights”
• describing a school council as an entity serving a special limited purpose based on the council's lack of power to collect taxes
• “A statute is not a commitment by the legislature never to repeal the statute.”
• “A statute is not a commitment by the legislature never to repeal the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).