Digital Properties, Inc. v. City of Plantation

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he injury requirement is most loosely applied when a plaintiff asserts a violation of First Amendment rights based on the enforcement of a law, regulation or policy.”
• “The determination of ripeness goes to whether the district court had subject matter jurisdiction to hear the case.”
• “The ripeness doctrine protects federal courts from engaging in speculation or wasting their resources through the review of potential or abstract disputes.”
• \Article III ... limits the jurisdiction of the federal courts to cases and controversies of sufficient concreteness to evidence a ripeness for review.\ (citation omitted)
• “The determination of ripeness ‘goes to whether the district court had subject matter jurisdiction to hear the case.’” (citing Greenbriar, Ltd. v. City of Alabaster, 881 F.2d 1570, 1573 n.7 (11th Cir. 1989))
• First Amendment claim was unripe where plaintiff filed suit without waiting to obtain “a conclusive response from someone with the knowledge and authority to speak for” defendant regarding the action for which it sought permission

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).