Commonwealth v. Berea College

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that a plaintiff did not have a property interest in the issuance of a building permit because local law vested city officials with discretion in determining whether plaintiff’s construction complied with all applicable laws and regulations
• finding monetary damages sufficient where the plaintiff alleged economic injury in §1983 claim
• dismissing claims against zoning board of appeals under the same principle
• “[A]n individual may acquire a vested right in an existing benefit after undertaking expenditures in reliance on maintaining that benefit.” (emphases in original) (also collecting cases)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).