Tarrant County v. Ashmore

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where statutory authority existed, precinct lines could be changed for county commissioner districts, affecting incumbent county commissioners
• explaining that public offices belong to the people and are given to particular officeholders temporarily in trust
• explaining that public offices belong to the people and are given to particular officeholders temporarily in trust
• describing legislative fact-finding as “deal[ing] with matters of policy and administrative discretion, and affect individual parties to a dis- pute only to the extent that those parties are involved in the overall legislative scheme”
• public official has property interest that may be protected from unlawful interference with possession and conduct of such office during official’s incumbency
• public officer’s qualified interest in office is not property nor is it a vested right

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).