Thompson v. Legislative Audit Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that legislature’s reduction of state auditor’s annual salary from $7,200 to $5,200 to $1.00 over three years violated the separation of powers doctrine
• holding that legislature's reduction of state auditor's annual salary from $7,200 to $5,200 to $1.00 over three years violated the separation of powers doctrine
• noting “necessity of an early decision” as a factor in-reaching merits of a mandamus petition
• “Of course the legislature cannot abolish a constitutional office nor deprive the office of a single prescribed constitutional duty. Nor can this be done by indirection, such as depriving him of all statutory duties, thereby leaving the office in name only, an empty shell.”

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