Creason v. North Carolina Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming abstention under Pullman where ambiguous “sections of the Union Township Zoning Ordinance” had “never been interpreted by the New Jersey courts”
• “[I]t is unclear whether the term [‘motion picture theater’] encompasses only large, auditorium-style uses, as the Board found, or whether it could instead be read more broadly to also include private video viewing booths of the type involved here.”
• “[Ajbstention is ‘the exception, not the rule.’ ”
• land use issues implicate important state interests
• describing three-step analysis of Pullman abstention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).