Van Kirk v. Board of Police Commissioners

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the phrase, “at the pleasure of,” connotes that the person so serving serves at the will of the designated authority
• finding the language “shall serve during the pleasure” meant the employees were at-will and “may be removed by the board with or without cause or reason whenever, in its discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).