Fields v. Kodiak City Council

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that an administrative board should not decide equitable issues
• findings of board of adjustment were not sufficient because board gave no reasons for denial of zoning variance; reviewing court could not determine whether denial was based on appropriate factors
• zoning board’s authority “is restricted to that provided by the zoning ordinance and its enabling legislation” and, under that scheme, board lacked authority to decide equitable questions of estoppel and “clean hands”
• requiring findings in informal adjudications
• requiring findings in informal adjudications

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).