architectural-design

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A1263 Designworks Homes, Inc., et al. v. Columbia House of Brokers Realty, Inc., dba House of Brokers, Inc., dba Jackie Bulgin & Associates, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete architectural-design commercial-use copyright-law fair-use intellectual-property transformative-use Whether the fair use doctrine under copyright law permits commercial appropriation of an architect's proprietary house plans without compensation or c…
21-677 Donald Burns v. Town of Palm Beach, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Amici (2) aesthetic-regulation architectural-design first-amendment free-speech individual-expression municipal-review residential-architecture takings zoning zoning-requirements Did the Town of Palm Beach violate Burns's First Amendment rights by denying his proposed home design based solely on aesthetics when the design met a…