Nestor Colon Medina & Sucesores, Inc. v. Patria G. Custodio

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• holding that denial of land use permit in unjustifiable retaliation for applicant's political expression is a First Amendment violation
• holding that the plaintiffs First Amendment retaliation claim regarding a waste disposal permit “failfed] for lack of evidence that whatever shortcomings and irregularities occurred were in retaliation for [his] personal political views”
• holding infirm a substantive due process claim based on alleged retaliation for plaintiff's political views
• holding that plaintiffs evidence that denial of land use permit was retaliatory for plaintiffs expression of political views was sufficient to permit inference that planning concerns cited were pretext to hide retaliatory motive
• holding infirm a substantive due process claim based on alleged retaliation for plaintiffs political views
• noting that the “threshold for establishing the requisite ‘abuse of government power’ is a high one indeed”

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