Guatay Christian Fellowship v. County of San Diego

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that the plaintiff could not reasonably rely on, among other things, electrical permits issued by the county to a third party to establish reasonable reliance for equitable estoppel because the plaintiff only learned of that permit through discovery
• explaining that RLUIPA claims are ripe when there is finality, but not exhaustion of administrative remedies
• explaining that state law creates the “underlying substantive interest of a due process claim”
• explaining that without knowing the “definitive, particularized obligations” that resulted from a land use application and review, “we cannot determine whether this permit application process itself constitutes a substantial burden on the Church”
• applying “the Williamson County final decision requirement [] and approv[ing] the dismissal of the Church’s RLUIPA claims as unripe for lack of a final decision”
• dismissing aspects of RLUIPA claims related to a church’s ability to operate without a use permit for religious assembly, since some issues had not yet been addressed by the city

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).