Bushby v. Washington County Conservation Board

How courts have described this case

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

• holding private citizens had standing under the public trust doctrine and resolving the case on the merits
• holding private citizens had standing under the public trust doctrine and resolving the case on the merits
• considering the application of the public trust doctrine where the plaintiffs opposed a tree-clearing project scheduled for a county park
• finding the public trust doctrine “does not serve as an impediment to legally sanctioned management of forested areas by the public bodies entrusted by law with their care”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kiesau v. Bantz
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2004-09-01· cited 134×
• Berent v. City of Iowa City
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2007-08-31· cited 21×
• Keith Puntenney, Laverne I. Johnson, Richard R. Lamb, Marian D. Johnson, Northwest Iowa Landowners Association, Iowa Farmland Owners Association, Inc., and the Sierra Club Iowa Chapter v. Iowa Utilities Board, and Office of Consumer Advocate and The Main Coalition, and Dakota Access, LLC
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2019-05-31· cited 19×
• Tow v. Truck Country of Iowa, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2005-04-15· cited 12×
• Hynes v. Clay County Fair Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2003-12-17· cited 3×
• James M. Winters, Carol A. Winters, Ted Waitman, and Deborah Waitman v. A.J. Christen and Aune Christen, and Their Heirs, Devisees, Grantees, Assignments, Successors in Interest and Any Unknown of the Followed Described Real Estate Situated in Allamakee County, and Duane A. Tank and Sheila M. Tank, Intervenors-Appellants.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-04-19
• Michael Joseph Berent, Michael Steven Romp, Jeff Wayne Thorne, Paul Bryson Ingram, Nichelle Aline Thompson, Rodney Edward Sullivan, Sara Lillis Epstein, Sara Crane Swisher, Bette Jayne Mayes, Caroline M. Dieterle, Matt Blizek, Mori Constantino, Amanda Coyne, Lolly Eggers, Ellen Haywood, Jon Klinkowitz, Karen Kubby, Bob Thompson, James Walters, Roberta Till Retz And Jennie Louise Embree
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2007-08-31
• Iowa Citizens For Community Improvement, and Food & Water Watch v. State of Iowa Department of Natural Resources Bruce Trautman, In His Official Capacity as Acting Director of the Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Commission Mary Boote, Nancy Couser, Lisa Gochenour, Rebecca Guinn, Howard Hill
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2021-06-18
• 1000 Friends of Iowa, Bill Barnes, Inc., Bradley E. Coulson, Teresa M. Coulson, Sondra K. Feldstein Revocable Trust and Stuart I. Feldstein Revocable Trust v. Polk County Board of Supervisors
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2025-04-04

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-12· cited 6,373×
• Sierra Club v. Morton
  Supreme Court· 1972-04-19· cited 3,248×
• Rieff v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2001-07-03· cited 62×
• Crippen v. City of Cedar Rapids
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-10-11· cited 62×
• Board of Directors of Independent School District v. Green
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1967-01-10· cited 52×
• Fencl v. City of Harpers Ferry
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-12-20· cited 50×
• Douglass v. Iowa City
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-05-22· cited 9×
• Clark v. Iowa State Commerce Commission
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-12-19· cited 1×