Mayor of Savannah v. Savannah Cigarette & Amusement Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• reaffirming a previous Supreme Court ruling that a party challenging rezoning must petition local authorities for relief prior to asking a court of equity to declare a zoning ordinance unconstitutional
• suit challenging rezoning was procedurally barred irrespective of whether the plaintiffs claim was “couched in terms of eminent domain”
• “[e]ven assuming that inverse condemnation is an available remedy” where a landowner’s property is rezoned by the governing authority
• states “[e]ven assuming that inverse condemnation is an available remedy” where a landowner’s property is rezoned by the governing authority
• the action was an attempt to circumvent the requirement to exhaust available administrative remedies and so was procedurally barred
• the action was an attempt to circumvent the requirement to exhaust available administrative remedies and so was procedurally barred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).