Flying J Inc. v. City of New Haven

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “[a]nimus comes into play only when [there is] no rational reason or motive . . . for the injurious action taken by the [legislature]”
• holding that ripeness, when it implicates the possibility of a court issuing an advisory opinion, “is a question of subject matter jurisdiction under the case-or-controversy requirement” (quoting Wisconsin Cent., Ltd. v. Shannon, 539 F.3d 751, 759 (7th Cir. 2008))
• explaining that we can consider additional facts presented in appellate briefs as long as they are consistent with the underlying complaint
• explaining that we can consider additional facts presented in appellate briefs as long as they are consistent with the underlying complaint
• affirming dismissal of class-of-one claim based on plaintiff’s failure “to overcome the presumption of rationality that attaches to government actions in a class of one equal protection case”
• affirming dismissal of class-of-one claim based on plaintiff’s failure “to overcome the presumption of rationality that attaches to government actions in a class of one equal protection case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).