Hughes v. Almena Township

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[t]he failure to cite sufficient authority results in the abandonment of an issue on appeal”
• noting that statutes that are in pari materia must be read together as one law and should be reconciled “if possible”
• “Zoning authorities will not be estopped from enforcing their ordinances absent exceptional circumstances. Casual private advice or assurance of success from township officials does not constitute exceptional circumstances.”
• “Zoning authorities will not be estopped from enforcing their ordinances absent exceptional circumstances”
• equating exceptional circumstances with making significant expenditures in reliance on the representation
• “The failure to cite sufficient authority results in the abandonment of an issue on appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).