Roach v. Georgia

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “a trier of fact could conclude that” there was no “rational basis” for a zoning board's revocation of a landowner's building permit, where the board lacked authority under state law for such revocation
• rejecting procedural due process challenge where the state courts “[provided] a state forum to review the constitutionality of the defendant’s actions”
• rejecting procedural due process claim because the plaintiffs “could have sought meaningful review” of town zoning decision “within the state judicial system, but chose instead to commence the present action”
• “[T]he evidentiary burdens that the respective parties will bear at trial guide district courts in their determination of summary judgment motions.”
• “[T]he evidentiary burdens that the respective parties will bear at trial guide district courts in their determination of summary judgment motions.”
• “…The equal protection clause ‘is essentially a direction that all persons similarly situated should be treated alike.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).