First Circuit· 1/31/2008

Clark v. Boscher

Citations

514 F.3d 107
2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 2069
2008 WL 250297

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concluding that a proposed comparator may not be similarly situated if the governmental entity had different applicable policies for granting or denying a license
concluding that an alleged pattern of “arbitrary, unreasonable, and capricious acts” did not rise to the level of “conscience shocking”
affirming dismissal because it was impossible to conclude that the town’s same concerns about contamination on the plaintiffs’ property applied to their proposed comparator residential subdivision
affirming dismissal of equal protection claim brought by developers of residential subdivision dismissed where developers presented the court multitude of different types of allegedly comparable developments because they were not objectively similar in “all relevant respects”
other entities identified by the plaintiff, such as a private subdivision and an industrial park, differed significantly in nature from plaintiffs proposed subdivision and thus were not similarly situated

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Judges: Boudin, Torruella, Dyk

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