Worthington v. Fauver

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, in the context of the Disaster Control Act, “it is not a necessary component of an ‘emergency’ that it be sudden or unforeseen”
• upholding an EO that required county jails to temporarily house state prisoners where the EO called for the establishment of a \program to compensate the counties holding state prisoner\
• delegation of authority to executive branch to issue emergency orders “to protect the public health, safety, and welfare”
• “[I]n the absence of a legislative response, such properly grounded executive actions could continue to be exercised as long as the emergency posed a threat to the public.”
• “The statutory validity of executive actions pursuant to emergency power will depend on the nature of the emergency and the gravity of the threat to the public. Thus, a more serious emergency may justify greater responsive measures.”
• addressing extent of the Governor's powers under Disaster Control Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).