Strout v. City of Virginia Beach

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• decided on state law grounds, but concluding that the “ordinance criminalizing destruction of property manifests a conflict with state law ... because the penalty that attaches under the ordinance exceeds the penalty for the ‘like’ offense” under state law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).