in Re the State of Texas Ex Rel Jana Duty, District Attorney, Williamson County v. Honorable Rick J. Kennon, Judge 368th District Court, Real Party in Interest Crispin James Harmel

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• holding that a class-of- one “plaintiff must be ‘prima facie identical’ to the persons alleged to receive irrationally different treatment” and concluding that drivers of for-hire vehicles and taxi drivers were not “prima facie identical” (citation omitted)
• stating that an opportunity to be heard must be given “at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding insufficiently identical comparator for the purposes of an Olech claim medallion taxis and for-hire vehicles, based on different degrees of regulation and manners of engaging customers
• no cognizable property interest in the “market value” of a taxi license, where different regulations for taxis diminished license’s value
• no property interest in decreased market value of taxi medallions as a result of loosening of taxi licensing regulations
• “To succeed on [an equal protection] claim, plaintiffs must show an extremely high degree of similarity between themselves and the persons to whom they compare themselves.”

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