Yadow v. Hilton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “failure to . . . appeal [building] commissioner’s” denial of building permit to “[z]oning [b]oard of [a]ppeals” rendered developer’s claim “[un]ripe for judicial consideration”
• recognizing, but declining to apply, the futility exception to the prong-one final-decision requirement
• determining that the plaintiff’s equal protection lawsuit challenging an agency commissioner’s decision that it could not develop its property was not ripe because that decision was not final and was instead subject to change pending an appeal to the Zoning Board of Appeals
• finding “no basis in the record to apply the futility exception” despite “public opposition”
• “[A] plaintiff alleging discrimination in the context of a land-use dispute is subject to the final-decision requirement unless he can show that he suffered some injury independent of the challenged land-use decision.”
• “[I]n light of administrative avenues for relief outlined in the zoning ordinance and the commissioner’s letter, we conclude that neither of these acts gave rise to an injury independent of the city’s ultimate land-use decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).