In Re Appeals of Letourneau

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding Environmental Court’s order to remove a home addition built without a permit and in violation of the applicable setbacks
• discussing this principle in the context of a constitutional challenge to zoning regulations
• evaluating whether setbacks advance a legitimate government interest in the takings context and concluding that “as a general proposition setback requirements are valid” and “[n]umerous general purposes of zoning regulation are promoted by setback regulation.” (emphasis added)
• analyzing this Court’s lack of jury trials in the context of the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and determining that the denial of a jury trial was not a denial of the equal protection of law
• courts will not interfere with zoning unless it clearly and beyond dispute is unreasonable, irrational, arbitrary, or discriminatory
• “[T]he trial court has broad discretion to exclude marginally relevant evidence that is remote, tends to confuse the issues or causes a waste of time.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).