Bowlby v. City of Aberdeen, Miss.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that licenses and permits are protected property rights because “once issued, a license or permit “may become essential in the pursuit of a livelihood.”
• stating that a complaint containing mere “labels and conclusions, or a formulaic recitation of the elements” is insufficient to state a claim
• holding, where there was no emergency, that a city permit to operate a retail business could not be revoked without pre-deprivation process
• noting that an equal protection claim requires proof of unequal treatment
• noting that a city government has \a strong interest in properly regulating businesses\
• finding a procedural due process violation where the plaintiff was “not provided any process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).