Hilton Acres v. Klein

How courts have described this case

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• stating that \municipal action in the land use control field taken in direct violation of law or without legal authority is void ab initio and has no legal efficacy\
• “municipal action in the land use control field taken in direct violation of law or without legal authority is void ab initio and has no legal efficacy.”
• “The ... immunity is fairly to be construed as intended to afford reasonable assurances to developers of that scope that they may safely make the kind of investment thus envisaged ... without [the] risk of major or substantial disturbance of their plans by the local authorities----”

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