Smith v. Dorsey

How courts have described this case

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• finding that school board’s fish fry and payment for campaign workers to support a school bond referendum \constituted illegal promotional efforts\
• affirming ruling by Court of Chancery that expenditures for a “fish fry” held in support a bond referendum were improper under state law
• declining to consider three assignments of error where appellants failed to cite supporting authority or devote discussion or attention to the alleged errors
• finding no abuse of discretion in the chancellor’s award of expert’s fee and attorneys’ fees
• upholding a lower court determination that a school district's payment of school funds to campaign workers working to support a bond issue was a \blatant and unauthorized\ expenditure of public funds
• “The failure to cite any authority can be treated as a procedural bar, and this Court is under no obligation to consider the assignments.”

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