· 7/27/2007
Cordi-Allen v. Conlon
Citations
- 494 F.3d 245
- 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 17926
- 2007 WL 2142882
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that “the district court did not err in entering summary judgment for the 15 Town on the equal protection claim”
- holding that “the district court did not err in entering summary judgment for the 15 Town on the equal protection claim”
- explaining that “[t]he ‘similarly situated’ requirement furnishes the limiting principle” that prevents “virtually every zoning decision” from leading to an equal protection case
- warning that without a sensible limiting principle, “virtually every zoning decision . . . would be a candidate to find its way to federal court in the guise of an equal protection claim”
- requiring comparators to be similarly situated “in all relevant aspects” in a civil “class of one” context
- finding that the project that plaintiffs intended to undertake, but that had been rejected by municipal officials, could not usefully be compared to projects undertaken by their neighbors because of differences in the size, scope and timing of the projects
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Judges: Lynch, Selya, Lipez
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