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· 10/6/1977

City of Yuma v. Lattie

Citations

  • 572 P.2d 108
  • 117 Ariz. 280
  • 1977 Ariz. App. LEXIS 745

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that the right to compensation for loss of access is “limited only by the exercise of a city’s police power.”
  • interpreting Arizona cases and stating that Article 2, Section 17 “requires that just compensation be paid by a city ... where the easement of ingress or egress of a property owner is substantially impaired”
  • “If [a governmental entity] fails to institute an eminent domain action and private property is taken or damaged for public use, Article 2, Section 17 of the Constitution is self-executing and the right to bring an inverse eminent domain action vests in the property owner.”

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Judges: Eubank, Wren, Donofrio

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