Teachers Management & Investment Corp. v. City of Santa Cruz

How courts have described this case

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

• “decision of a city to build and operate a public structure is unquestionably legislative in nature” and, accordingly, is proper subject of initiative
• \decision of a city to build and operate a public structure is unquestionably legislative in nature\ and, accordingly, is proper subject of initiative
• \Laches is an affirmative defense to a suit in equity; the doctrine has no application to the effectiveness of a statute or ordinance.\ (Citation omitted.)
• initiative forbidding city from owning, leasing, maintaining or operating a convention center facility at a specific site held to be legislative in nature
• initiative forbidding city from owning, leasing, maintaining or operating a convention center facility at a specific site held to be legislative in nature

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).