This summary is limited to cases decided in the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court of Tennessee, reported during the last year, and dealing with some phase of that body of law which embraces' Municipal Corporations, Counties, Officers, Elections and related topics fitting into the general classification of Local Government Law. No attempt has been made to consider Acts of the 1953 General Assembly which may have affected this field, as most of the legislation in this field is local in nature.
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Summarizes a case on declaratory judgment—municipal corporations and another on discharge of Seattle city employees—civil service—Seattle City Service Commission.
"This edition continues the emphasis of prior editions on such topics as the relationship of local governments to state and federal governments; the needs of local governments for territory, for personnel, and for adequate financing; and the principal activities and possible liabilities of local government. There is increased attention to land use control, an area of growing activity on the part of institutions, ranging from the U.S. Supreme Court to local zoning boards. This includes material not found in some books in this field, on such important concepts as "smart growth," "new urbanism," and "regulatory takings.""--
Editor: 1938- , A. Fellows and A. R. Llewellin-Taylour. ; "Containing the statutes of the session annoted and explained; digest of all cases decided in the courts; and the circulars, orders, and other official information relating to the jurisdiction of local authorities issued during the year." ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Continued by: Dumsday, W. H. (William Henry). Dumsday's local government law and legislation.
The tremendous expansion of the functions of local governmental agencies, particularly into provinces heretofore reserved for private enterprise, has resulted in a similar expansion of local government law. It seems safe to assert that within the confines of local government law can be found legal principles and rules from practically every other field of law. It is necessary, therefore, to limit the scope of an annual survey of local government law; no longer is it possible to include in a survey article such as this a discussion of all of these legal principles and rules. Nor is such a discussion necessary, sincemany of these rules will be treated in other survey articles. Consequently, the present survey article will attempt to emphasize various aspects of this body of law which would not receive treatment elsewhere in the survey or which would not be expected, as a general rule, to be discussed in another survey article.'Although a number of cases involving local government law were decided by the Tennessee appellate courts during the survey period, very few involved questions of first impression. Since most of the rules underlying these decisions were fairly well-settled, there is little need for extensive background analysis. With relatively few exceptions, therefore, only a brief sketch of the individual cases will be attempted.
