City of Tacoma v. Welcker

How courts have described this case

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• “Arbitrary and capricious conduct is willful and unreasoning action, without consideration and regard for facts or circumstances.”
• city’s decision to acquire land next to river to protect against possible contamination of water supply was not arbitrary and capricious even though no present threat existed
• city's decision to acquire land next to river to protect against possible contamination of water supply was not arbitrary and capricious even though no present threat existed
• the necessity requirement “embraces the right of the public to expect and demand the service and facilities to be provided by a proposed acquisition or improvement”; “[r]easonable necessity for use in a reasonable time is all that is required”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).