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25-464 Philip G. Potter v. Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-16 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process land-use section-1983 takings-claims Whether the accrual rule for takings claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 applies to procedural due process claims asserted in land-use disputes
25A130 Philip G. Potter v. Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-31 Presumed Complete certificate-of-occupancy federalism land-use procedural-due-process section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations for a procedural due process claim under 42 U.S.C. §1983 begins to run only after state proceedings challenging a p…
24-815 Franciscan Alliance, Inc., et al. v. Indiana Indiana 2025-01-31 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law eminent-domain government-taking just-compensation land-use property-rights When the government undisputedly takes a real property right, is a landowner entitled to just compensation from the imposition of a project as a whole…
23-1277 PPI Enterprises, LLC v. Town of Windham, New Hampshire New Hampshire 2024-06-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process final-decision government-action land-development land-use permit-denial property-rights regulatory-takings ripeness-doctrine takings Are two final denials of development applications sufficient to ripen a regulatory takings claim, where the government asserts that it might grant a t…
23-7432 Torrieo Monte Johnson, aka Torrieo Corker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights corporate-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge land-use multi-defendant-case ninth-circuit-interpretation state-jurisdiction What are the acceptance and recordation dates for which the Federal Government accepted concurrent legislative jurisdiction from the State of Georgia …
23-1153 Cesar Romero, et al. v. Li-Chuan Shih, et al. California 2024-04-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-law due-process eminent-domain land-use private-property property-rights takings takings-clause Whether a court order that excludes landowners from their real property and allows other private parties to permanently physically invade and occupy t…
23-1045 835 Hinesburg Road, LLC v. City of South Burlington, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) or whether a property owner is required to submit development-restrictions due-process exhaustion final-decision land-use land-use-permit property-rights regulatory-taking ripeness ripeness-doctrine takings takings-claim Whether a takings claim is ripe when a city makes a final decision under existing ordinances denying a land use permit, or whether a property owner is…
23A524 835 Hinesburg Road, LLC v. City of South Burlington, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Presumed Complete as-applied-claim fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use regulatory-takings ripeness Whether a government's land use decision constitutes a final decision sufficient to render an as-applied regulatory takings claim ripe for federal cou…
23A364 BP America Production Company, et al. v. Parish of Cameron, Louisiana, et al. Louisiana 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete coastal-erosion environmental-liability federal-preemption land-use oil-and-gas state-law Whether state courts can impose environmental remediation liability on oil and gas companies for coastal land erosion under Louisiana state law withou…
23-5800 Malcolm Muhammad v. William E. Jackson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights federal-law free-speech judicial-interpretation land-use property-rights religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a standing statutory-construction summary-judgment Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the district court's findings that the appellant failed to present evidence disputing the defendants'…
22-442 Tatana Spicakova Romero, et vir v. Li-Chuan Shih, et al. California 2022-11-10 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use private-property property-rights takings Whether a court order that excludes land owners from their real property and allows other private parties to physically invade and occupy the owners' …
21-7864 Andrew James Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment land-use permit property-rights public-easement takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a public easement across their …
21-7810 Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Dismissed IFP due-process fifth-amendment land-use property-rights regulatory-takings takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a public easement as a conditio…
21-7098 Thomas G. Landreth v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights indian-law land-use navigable-waters property-rights redress-of-grievances sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether 25 U.S.C. @ 1302 preserves the sovereign immunity claimed by the Quinault Indian Tribe/Nation
21-986 Donald A. Vanderveer v. Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of East Hampton, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied administrative-hearing administrative-law cross-examination due-process land-use liberty-interest property-rights zoning-board Whether the Second Circuit's Summary Order directly conflicts with Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970)
21-766 Douglass Properties II, LLC v. City of Olympia, Washington Washington 2021-11-23 Denied constitutional-scrutiny due-process government-discretion impact-fees koontz-v-st-johns land-use land-use-permit nollan-dolan-doctrine nollan-v-california-coastal-commission property-rights takings Whether the Nollan/Dolan doctrine applies to impact fees
21-112 Juliet Erickson, et al. v. Nevada County, California California 2021-07-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights deed-restriction due-process exaction land-use municipal-ordinance permit-denial property-rights takings Does an exaction occur when a County refuses to issue a building permit it previously approved unless the applicants consent to record an ad hoc deed …
21-5130 Michael Storey v. City of Alton, Illinois Illinois 2021-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure development-regulation due-process land-use municipal-law property-rights takings zoning Can a city deny a resident use of his land without due process?
20-1551 Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2021-05-10 Denied civil-rights conspiracy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment land-encroachment land-use property-rights takings Whether respondents transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-1286 Sacramento County, California v. Joseph Hardesty, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) chosen-profession due-process executive-action executive-decisions land-use land-use-regulation legislative-decisions municipal-decision-making occupational-liberty substantive-due-process zoning-ordinance Whether executive land-use decisions may be challenged via substantive due process
20-821 Mountainlands Conservancy, LLC, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. California 2020-12-17 Denied Response Waived coastal-regulation due-process fourteenth-amendment land-use procedural-due-process property-rights substantive-due-process takings zoning zoning-law When the California Coastal Commission's certification of the County of Los Angeles' local coastal program imposed a complete ban on the establishment…
19-7031 Allen James Hancock v. Texas Texas 2019-12-20 Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection land-use property-rights regulatory-takings standing statutory-interpretation takings-clause Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a public easement as a condition of …
19-502 Richard Baatz, et al. v. Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied certificate-of-public-convenience due-process eminent-domain federal-energy-regulatory-commission land-use natural-gas-act property-rights regulatory-authority takings Whether the Natural Gas Act requires the holder of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to obtain by easement, contract, or eminent domai…
18-1538 Dartmond Cherk, et al. v. Marin County, California California 2019-06-13 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (4) development-exactions development-fees dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process essential-nexus koontz-v-st-johns-river-water-management-district land-use legislative-exactions nollan-v-california-coastal-commission permit-conditions property-rights rough-proportionality takings takings-clause unconstitutional-conditions Whether permit conditions are exempt from review under the unconstitutional-conditions doctrine when their intended purpose is not to mitigate adverse…
18A1211 Karolyn Givens, et al. v. Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Presumed Complete condemnation eminent-domain fourth-circuit land-use pipeline-easement property-rights Whether a federal appellate court can authorize a private pipeline company to exercise eminent domain over private property without additional judicia…
18-8697 Frederick H. Banks v. Pennymac Holdings, LLC, fka Pennymac Mortgage Investment Trust Holdings I, LLC Pennsylvania 2019-04-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure document-submission due-process electronic-filing fifth-amendment immigration institutional-barriers judicial-access land-use pacer prisoner-litigation privacy privacy-policy property-rights regulatory-takings social-security takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to provide a public easement as a condition…
18-874 Houston Auto M. Imports Greenway, Limited, dba Mercedes-Benz of Houston Greenway v. Mark Zastrow, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment certificate-of-compliance declaration-under-penalty-of-perjury due-process eminent-domain land-use property-rights supreme-court-rule-33.1(d) supreme-court-rule-33.1(h) takings word-count Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their property for publ…
18-535 Residents Against Flooding, et al. v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen, City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure land-use land-use-decisions motion-to-dismiss property-rights rational-basis rule-12b6 standard-of-review substantive-due-process takings Whether, and to what extent, a court must give deference to a plaintiff's complaint and view the government's rational basis as a rebuttal presumption…
18-324 Douglas Leone, et ux., as Trustees Under That Certain Unrecorded Leone-Perkins Family Trust Dated August 26, 1999, as Amended v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (3) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment economic-benefit economically-beneficial-use fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment investment-use just-compensation land-use lucas-v-south-carolina-coastal-council natural-state property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings-clause Whether holding undeveloped property as an 'investment' or using it as a 'park' in its natural state constitutes economically beneficial or productive…
18-54 William A. Dabbs, Jr. v. Anne Arundel County, Maryland Maryland 2018-07-10 Denied Amici (2) development-exaction dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process koontz-v-st-johns-river-water-management-district land-use land-use-development land-use-regulation legislative-exactions legislative-taking monetary-exaction nollan-v-california-coastal-commission permit-conditions property-rights takings takings-clause unconstitutional-conditions Whether legislatively proscribed monetary exactions on land use development are subject to scrutiny under the unconstitutional conditions doctrine as …