Night Clubs, Inc. v. City of Fort Smith

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that important state interests were implicated in a challenge to the denial of a business license
• explaining that “where damages are sought . . . the Supreme Court instructs that traditional abstention principles generally require a stay as the appropriate mode of abstention”
• enforcement and application of zoning ordinances and land use regulations is an important state and local interest
• “[I]t is well-established that for abstention purposes, the enforcement and application of zoning ordinances and land use regulations is an important state and local interest.”
• “[I]t is well-established that for abstention purposes, the enforcement and application of zoning ordinances and land use regulations is an important state and local interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).