Watkins v. Josephine County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that no contractual obligation was created and county was not required to refrain from amending personnel benefits resolution, stating that county “never promised the permanence of the disputed benefits.... ”
• “A municipal charter bears the same relationship to the municipality’s ordinances that a state or federal constitution bears to those respective bodies’ legislation: It defines what is and is not within the entity’s legislative authority.”
• setting forth method for interpreting legislative and quasi-legislative contracts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).