Southern Constructors, Inc. v. Loudon County Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that local governments “derive the whole of their authority solely from the General Assembly”
• applying Dillon’s Rule, which “is a canon of statutory construction that calls for the strict and narrow construction of local government authority”
• applying Dillon’s Rule, which “is a canon of statutory construction that calls for the strict and narrow construction of local government authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).