…individual enabling statutes, often using the narrow Dillon’s rule standard of review. But courts in home rule states sometimes apply Dillon’s rule, and some non-home rule states don’t apply Dillon’s…
…of G.S. 160A-174 must be interpreted broadly. Prior to the enactment of G.S. 160A-4, North Carolina judges applied the longstanding principle known as Dillon’s Rule to narrowly interpret statutes granting…
…Dillon’s Rule, Legislative Reform, and the Current State of Affairs in North Carolina, 35 Wake Forest L. Rev. 671 (2000). In 1971 the General Assembly appeared to overrule Dillon’s Rule,…
…state. We’re variously described as a “Dillon’s Rule” or “broad construction” state, but what we know is that we don’t have the broad delegation of authority over local matters that…
…1 Dillon Mun. Corp. (4 ed) sec. 240.) The current edition of McQuillin’s treatise on Municipal Corporations recognizes the basic power of amotion, and states that “in the absence of…
…of the complainants. Judge Dillon’s dissenting opinion set out policy arguments for withholding records when no disciplinary measures result, citing to examples in other statutes, and concluding that a the…
…John Dillon, in his on municipal corporations. There has been no North Carolina case in which an ice-and-snow ordinance was attacked as invalid, but in Browder v. City of Winston-Salem…