Town of Delafield v. Sharpley

How courts have described this case

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• “The police power of a municipality extends to declaring certain acts or conditions to be a public nuisance.”
• town established prima facie existence of nuisance via violation of town ordinance through “blight[ing]” of property with “junk or other unsightly debris”; “repeated violations of an ordinance constitute a public nuisance”
• failure to oppose moving party's affidavits signals that the evidentiary facts are undisputed
• “‘neither the legitimacy of the business nor the length of time it has been in existence is controlling in determining whether a public nuisance exists because a public nuisance can always be abated’” (quoted source omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).