Meredith v. Talbot County, Maryland

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• explaining that the “procedures, programs, statutes, regulations, planning boards, and officials involved in the subdivision approval process qualify zoning in Talbot County, Maryland, as being governed by a complex state regulatory scheme”
• \The underlying purpose of Burford abstention is to enable federal courts to avoid needless conflict with the administration by a state of its own affairs.\
• \Pullman absten- tion . . . is appropriate where there are unsettled questions of state law that may dispose of the case and avoid the need for deciding the con- stitutional question.\
• “[S]everal levels of state review of zoning decisions exist, including: (1) an appeal from the Talbot County Planning Commission to the County Board of Appeals; (2) an appeal from the County Board of Appeals to the Circuit Court for Talbot County; and (3

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