Goodenow v. City Council of Maquoketa

How courts have described this case

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• holding that city ordinance forcing landowner to mow grass and weeds growing on city-owned property at landowner’s expense is proper exercise of police power and does not constitute a taking of private property
• holding that city ordinance forcing landowner to mow grass and weeds growing on city-owned property at landowner's expense is proper exercise of police power and does not constitute a taking of private property
• declining to address issue where “[p]laintiffs did not raise this issue before the district court, or in their initial brief”
• declining to address issue where “[p]laintiffs did not raise this issue before the district court, or in their initial brief”
• declining to address issue where plaintiffs did not raise issue “in their initial brief”
• declining to address issue where plaintiffs did not raise issue “in their initial brief”

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