Charles W. Warren Ruth Warren v. City of Athens, Ohio

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a violation of substantive due process “occurs when arbitrary and capricious government action deprives an individual of a constitutionally protected property interest”
• finding that plaintiffs failed to establish that there was no rational basis for defendants’ zoning decision
• noting that a unilateral zoning change with respect to a vested right could violate substantive due process
• explaining that it is plaintiff’s “burden [to] demonstrate[e] that he possessed a protected property [] interest”
• “[SJubstantive due process concepts are not available to provide relief when another provision of the Constitution directly addresses the- type of illegal government conduct alleged by the plaintiff.”
• “[S]ubstantive due process concepts are not available to provide relief when another provision of the Constitution directly addresses the type of illegal government conduct alleged by the plaintiff.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).