James W. Grant and Delores Grant, Stairs Manufactured Housing, Inc. v. County of Seminole, Florida

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• concluding that legislation “enacted to further the health, safety and welfare” of a county’s citizens “was legislated to further legitimate public purposes”
• affirming district court grant of summary judgment for defendant municipality on grounds that there existed a rational basis for challenged zoning regulation
• affirming district court grant of summary judgment for defendant municipality on grounds that there existed a rational basis for challenged zoning regulation
• noting that federal courts do not serve as zoning appeal boards
• finding that district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to exercise pendent jurisdiction over state law preemption claim where court would have been required “to decide a novel question of state law that was by no means clear cut”
• “[T]he failure of a lower court to give reasons for its disposition of an action . . . does not necessarily preclude affirmance . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).