Bowen v. Story County Board of Supervisors

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that supervisors lacked jurisdiction to change zoning where no notice or hearing was provided for its action
• holding that failure to hold a public hearing deprived municipal entity of jurisdiction to proceed and jurisdictional challenge need not be raised before the municipal entity to be preserved for review
• stating the rule of error preservation is “applicable where a party assails the tribunal’s action as in excess of jurisdiction or illegal”
• stating the rule of error preservation “is applicable where a party assails the tribunal’s action as in excess of jurisdiction or illegal”
• “Where a statute requires public notice, actual appearance by a few citizens cannot waive the right of all citizens to the statutory notice and opportunity for hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).