Tony Thornton Auction Service, Inc. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• contrasting “limitations imposed on States by the Contract Clause with the less searching standards imposed on [federal] economic legislation by the Due Process Clauses”
• finding workers compensation statute was incorporated in contract between employees and employer
• finding workers compensation statute was incorporated in contract between employees and employer
• “If the state is a party to the contract, such deference is inappropriate, and the court may inquire whether a less drastic alteration of contract rights could achieve the same purpose[.]”
• “Legislation aimed retroactively to benefit or burden a few identifiable persons is particularly vulnerable to the charge that it is not reasonably related to the asserted public purposes.”
• “[T]he Contract Clause reaches ... implied contracts_”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).