· 11/6/2008
SBT HOLDINGS, LLC v. Town of Westminster
Citations
- 547 F.3d 28
- 39 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20278
- 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 23086
- 2008 WL 4815707
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- concluding that it was proper to infer that comparators were subject to the same environmental obligations in light of the court’s obligation to draw all rational inferences in favor of the plaintiffs on a motion to dismiss
- rejecting claim that “contract law firm” and its attorney are not entitled to absolute immunity
- “Federal courts must give preclusive effect to state court judgments in accordance with state law.”
- \[W]e draw all rational inferences from the facts alleged in favor of the plaintiffs.\
- “To determine whether two or more entities are ‘similarly situated,’ we ask ‘whether a prudent person, looking objectively at the incidents, would think them roughly equivalent and the protagonists similarly situated.’”
- “The Supreme Court has twice explicitly found the statute to be ambiguous.”
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Judges: Lynch, Torruella, Stahl
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