Gardner v. City Of Baltimore

How courts have described this case

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• holding that existence of a property interest turns on whether there is a “legitimate claim of entitlement” under state law
• recognizing that land-use decisions are a core function of local government and that subdivision control is an inher- ently discretionary system
• plaintiff had no legitimate claim of entitlement to issuance of a public works agreement when state and municipal law accorded the city discretion to refuse to issue the agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).