In a lawsuit in which residents complained that it was illegal for Takeo City, Saga Prefecture, to enter into a contract for the development of a disaster prevention information dissemination system without going through a resolution of the assembly, the Supreme Court decided to dismiss the appeal by the 13th. The judgment of the second instance, which rejected the side's appeal, has become final.
Four years ago, Takeo City entered into a contract with a cable TV company to install receivers in each home to build a disaster prevention system.
Regarding this contract, six residents and others demanded that the city sue the mayor, who signed the contract, for more than 405 million yen, claiming that the contract was ``concluded illegally without passing the council's resolution as required by the ordinance.''
The Saga District Court, which held the first instance, approved the residents' appeal, saying that a resolution was necessary.
However, after that, the city council voted to ratify the contract, and the second instance, the Fukuoka High Court, ruled that ``the contract was made retroactively legal,'' contrary to the first instance decision. I dismissed the complaint.
The residents had filed an appeal against this, but the Chief Justice Takuya Miyama of the First Petty Bench of the Supreme Court decided to dismiss the appeal by the 13th, confirming the residents' defeat.