- Accessory Dwelling Units:
- Kamps-Hughes v. City of Eugene, 305 Or. App. 224, 226 (2020)
- Adult Uses:
- For The People Theaters of N.Y. Inc. v. City of New York, 14 N.Y.S.3d 338 (App. Div. 2015)
- Bickers v. Saavedra, 2020 WL 6905310 (S.D. Ind. Nov. 24, 2020)
- Affordable Housing:
- Hart v. Town Board of Huntington, 980 N.Y.S.2d 128 (App. Div. 2014)
- Anti-NIMBY:
- Honchariw v. County of Stanislaus, 132 Cal. Rptr. 874 (Cal. App. 2011)
- Anti-Slapp Statutes:
- Kosor v. Olympia Companies, LLC, 478 P.3d 390, 392 (Nev. 2020)
- Architectural Design:
- Burns v. Town of Palm Beach, 999 F.3d 1317 (11th Cir. 2021)
- Bias:
- Woody’s Group Inc v. City of Newport Beach, 183 Cal. Rptr. 3d 318 (Cal. App. 2015)
- California Housing Crisis Law:
- Ruegg and Ellsworth v. City of Berkeley, 277 Cal. Rptr. 3d 649 (Cal. App. 2021)
- Coastal Development:
- Beach And Bluff Conservancy v. City of Solana Beach, 239 Cal. Rptr. 3d 86 (Cal. App. 2018)
- Comprehensive Plans:
- Apple Group, Ltd. v. Granger Township Board of Zoning Appeals, 26 N.E.3d 193 (Ohio 2015)
- Remmel v. City of Portland, 102 A.3d 1168 (Me. 2014)
- Orange Citizens for Parks and Recreation v. Superior Court, 385 P.3d 386 (Cal. 2016)
- Denham, LLC v. City of Richmond, 2019 WL 5493479 (Cal. App.2019)
- Conflict of Interest:
- Bohmier v. Arrell, 2018 WL 3818880 (E.D. Pa, 2018)
- Lewis v. Benton County, 463 S.W.3rd 181 (Ark. 2014)
- Compilation of RLUIPA Cases on Constitutionality
- Conditional Use:
- Mustang Run Wind Project, LLC v. Osage County Board of Adjustment, 387 P.3d 333 (Oka. 2016)
- Epona v. County of Ventura, 876 F.3d 1214 (9th Cir. 2017)
- Innovative 55, LLC v. Robeson County, 801 S.E.2d 671 (N.C. Ct. App. 2017)
- Shelly Materials, Inc. v. City of Streetsboro Planning and Zoning Commission, 2019 WL 5699511 (Ohio 2019)
- Corridor Preservation:
- Kirby v. North Carolina Department of Transportation, 786 S.E.2d 919 (N.C. 2016)
- Delay in Decision Making:
- Edwards, CDS, LLC v. City of Delray Beach, 699 Fed. Appx. 885 (11th Cir. 2017)
- Due Process:
- Halchak v. Dorrance Township Board of Supervisors, 2019 WL 4794773 (M.D. Pa. 2019)
- Entitlement:
- Pulte Homes of New York, LLC v. Town of Carmel, 2017 WL 3913022 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 5, 2017)
- Equal Protection:
- Morrow v. City of San Diego, 2017 WL 3131547 (S.D. Cal. July 21, 2017)
- Equitable Estoppel:
- In re Langlois/Novicki Variance Denial, 2017 WL 3662437 (Vt. Aug. 25, 2017)
- Exactions:
- AMCAL Chico LLC v. Chico Unified School District, 270 Cal. Rptr. 3d 868 (Cal. Rptr. 2020)
- Dabbs v. Anne Arundel County, 182 A.3d 798 (Md. 2018)
- City of Perris v. Stamper, 376 P.3d 1221 (Cal. 2016)
- Fair Housing Act:
- Ave. 6E Investments, LLC v. City of Yuma, Arizona, No. 13-16159, 2016 WL 1169080 (9th Cir. Mar. 25, 2016)
- Meraki Recovery Housing, LLC v. City of Coon Rapids, 2021 WL 5567898 (D. Minn. Nov. 29, 2021)
- MHANY Management, Inc. v. County of Nassau, 2017 WL 4174787 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017)
- Floating Zone:
- Citizens for a Better Flathead v. Board of County Commissioners, 2016 WL 7239506 (Mont. 2016)
- Group Homes:
- His House Recovery Residence, Inc. v. Cobb County, Georgia, 806 F. App’x 780, 781 (11th Cir. 2020)
- Town of Rocky Hill v. SecureCare Realty, LLC, , 315 Conn. 265 (2015)
- Growth Management:
- Whatcom County v. Hirst, 381 P.3d 1 (Wash. 2016)
- Historic Preservation:
- Shoal Creek Land & Cattle, LLC v. City of Arab, 2017 WL 2991470 (Ala. Civ. App. July 14, 2017)
- Homeless Shelters
- Catherine H. Barber Memorial Shelter, Inc. v. Town of North Wilkesboro Bd. of Adjustment, 576 F. Supp. 3d 318 (W.D.N.C. 2021)
- Impact Fees:
- AMCAL Chico LLC v. Chico Unified School District, 57 Cal. App. 5th 122, 270 Cal. Rptr. 3d 868 (2020)
- Quality Built Homes Inc. v. Town of Carthage, 789 S.E.2d 454 (N.C. 2016)
- Inclusionary Zoning:
- California Building Industry Association v. City of San Jose, 2015 WL 3650184 (Cal. 2015)
- Inverse Condemnation:
- Fritz v. Washoe County, 2016 WL 4140940 (Nev. 2016)
- Manufactured Housing:
- Parkview Homes LLC v. City of Lexington, 2017 WL 758573 (D. Minn. 2017)
- Moratoria:
- California Charter Schools Association v. City of Huntington Park, 2019 WL 213 7545 (Cal. App. 2019)
- Nonconforming Uses:
- Dunbar v. Zoning Hearing Board, 144 A.3d 219 (Pa. Commw. 2016)
- Overflight Easements:
- Powell v. County of Humboldt, 166 Cal. Rptr. 3d 747 (Cal. App. 2014)
- Oregon Measure 37:
- Held Invalid at Trial: MacPherson v. Department of Administrative Services, Marion County Circ. Ct. Case No. 00C15769(PDF)
- Commentary by Edward J. Sullivan
- Trial Court Reversed by Oregon Supreme Court: MacPherson v. Department of Administrative Services, CC No. 05C10444; SC S52875
- Plan Consistency:
- Naraghi Lakes Neighborhood Preservation Association v. City of Modesto, 204 Cal. Rptr. 3d 67 Cal. App. 2016)
- Orange Citizens for Parks & Recreation v. Superior Court, 385 P.3d 386 (Cal. 2016)
- Planned Unit Development:
- Newtown Square East, L.P. v. Township of Newtown, 101 A.3d 37 (Pa. 2014)
- Howell v. District of Columbia Zoning Commission , 97 A.3d 579 (D.C. App. 2014)
- Durant v. District of Columbia Zoning Commission, 139 A.3d 880 (D.C. App. 2016)
- Barry Farm Tenants & Allies Association v. District of Columbia Zoning Commission, 182 A.2d 1214 (D.C. App. 2018)
- Racial Discrimination:
- Mensie v. City of Little Rock, 2019 WL 965124 (8th Cir. 2019)
- Referendum:
- State ex rel. Ebersole v. Delaware County Board of Elections, 20 N.E.3d 678 (Ohio 2014)
- Phillips v. City of Whitefish, 330 P.3d 442 (Mont. 2014)
- Retaliation:
- Guenther v. Sheffield Lake Zoning Board of Appeals, 42 N.E.3d 816 (Ohio App. 2015)
- Pflaum v. Town of Stuyvesant, 2016 WL 865296 (N.D.N.Y. 2016)
- Rezoning:
- Premier Township of York v. Miller, 2021 WL 297449 (Mich. Ct. App. 2021)
- Ripeness:
- Sherman v. Town of Chester , 752 F.3d 554 (2d Cir. 2014)
- Lilly Investments v. City of Rochester, 2017 WL 56753
- RLUIPA:
- Pass-A-Grille Beach Community Church, Inc. v. City of St. Pete Beach, 515 F. Supp. 3d 1226 (M.D. Fla. 2021)
- Redeemed Christian Church of God v. Prince George’s County, 17 F.4th 497 (4th Cir. 2021)
- Thai Meditation Association of Alabama, Inc. v. City of Mobile, 980 F.3d 821 (11th Cir. 2020)
- Hunt Valley Baptist Church, Inc. v. Baltimore County, 2020 WL 618662 (D. Md. 2020)
- Marianist Province v. City of Kirkwood, 2019 WL 6797544 (8th Cir. 2019)
- Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, 2014 U.S. Dist. Lexis 54203 (S.D. Ohio 2014)
- The Church of Our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ v. City of Markham, 2015 WL 4994290 (N.D. III. 2015)
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rockville Center v. Village of Old Westbury, 128 F. Supp.3d 566 (E.D.N.Y. 2015)
- Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, 2016 WL 2897658 (6th Cir. 2016)
- Riverside Church v. City of St. Michael, 2016 WL 4545310 (D. Minn. (2016)
- Christian Assembly Rios De Agua Viva v. City of Burbank, 2017 WL 677794 (N.D. Ill. 2017)
- Village of W. Dundee v. First United Methodist Church of W. Dundee, 74 N.E.3d 144 (Ill. App. 2017)
- Livingston Christian Schools v. Genoa Charter Township, 2017 WL 2381336 (6th Cir. 2017)
- Jesus Christ is the Answer Ministries, Inc. v. Baltimore County, 2018 WL 1521873, at *1 (D. Md. 2018)
- Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, 2018 WL 4443591 (6th Cir. 2018)
- School Signs:
- Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School District v. Town of Bethlehem, 66 N.Y.S.2d 534 (App. Div. 2017)
- Section 1983:
- Da Vinci Investment Ltd. Partnership v. Parker, 2015 WL 4737408 (5th Cir. 2015)
- Short-Term Rentals:
- Geft Outdoor, LLC v. City of Fishers, 2022 WL 3279934 (S.D. Ind. 2022)
- Hensely v. Gadd, 560 S.W.3d 516 (Ky. 2018)
- May v. Morgan County, 878 F.3d 1001 (11th Cir. 2017)
- Norton v. Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, 2021 WL 2149384 (Va. May 27, 2021)
- Zaatari v. City of Austin, 2019 WL 6336186 (Tex. App. 2019)
- HomeAway, Inc. v. City of Santa Monica, 918 F.3d 676 (9th Cir. 2019)
- Sign Regulation:
- Auspro Enterprises, LP v. Texas Department of Transportation, 2016 WL 7187475 (Tex. App. 2016)
- Colerain Township Board of Trustees v. Bench Billboard Company, 2020 WL 5820969 (Ohio App. 2020)
- E & J Equities, LLC v. Board of Adjustment of the Township of Franklin, 100 A. 3d 539 (N.J. 2014)
- Fanning v. City of Shavano Park, 2019 WL 7284945 (W.D. Tex. 2019)
- Geft Outdoor, LLC v. City of Westfield, 39 F.4th 821 (7th Cir. 2022)
- GJJM Enterprises, LLC v. City of Atlantic City, 2018 WL 6050629 (D.N.J. 2018)
- Harel Plumbing & Heating, Inc. v. Clark County., 2021 WL 3932252 (D. Nev. 2021)
- Signs for Jesus v. Town of Pembroke, 977 F.3d 93 (1st Cir. 2020)
- Thomas v. Bright, 2019 WL 4282488 (6th Cir. 2019)
- Solar Energy:
- Board of County Commissioners v. Perennial Solar, 196 A.3d 933 (Md. App. 2018)
- Dellinger v. Lincoln County, 832 S.E.2d 172 (N.C. App. 2019)
- Solar Farm Preemption:
- Board of County Commissioners v. Perennial Solar, LLC, 2018 WL 5993859 (Md Ct. App. 2018)
- Special Permits:
- GPH Cohasset, LLC v. Trustees of Reservations, 11 N.E.2d 641 (2014)
- Spot Zoning:
- Whitelaw v. Denver City Council, 405 P.3d 433 (Colo. 2017)
- Foothill Communities Coalition v. County of Orange, 2014 Cal. App. LEXIS 22
- Seth Hart v Town Board of Town of Huntington, 980 N.Y.S.2d 128 (App. Div. 2014)
- Heights of Lansing, LLC v. Village of Lansing, 75 N.Y.S.3d 607 (N.Y. App. Div. 2018)
- Standing:
- Anne Arundel County v. Bell, 113 A.3d 639 (Md. 2015)
- Moose Hollow Holdings, LLC v. Teton County Board of County Commissioners, 396 P.3d 1027 (Wyo. 2017)
- Griswold v. Homer Board of Adjustment, 426 P.3d 1044 (Alaska 2018)
- Subdivisions:
- Nicholas S. Bussanmas, L.L.C. v. City Council of City of Des Moines, 2018 WL 3471838 (Iowa App. 2018)
- Substantive Due Process:
- City of Morgantown v. Calvary Baptist Church, 849 S.E.2d 150 (W.Va. 2020)
- Takings:
- Adams Outdoor Advertising Limited Partnership v. City of Madison, 2018 WL 3032401 (Wis. 2018)
- Bridge Aina Le’a, LLC v. State of Hawaii Land Use Commission, 950 F.3d 610, 617 (9th Cir. 2020)
- Evans Creek, LLC v City of Reno, 2021 WL 4173919 (D. Nev. 2021)
- Lingle v. Chevron USA, Inc., 544 U.S. 528 (2005)
- Commentary by Edward J. Sullivan
- Powell v. City of Humboldt, 2014 Cal. App. LEXIS 37
- Map of the Case
- Commentary by John D. Echeverria
- Commentary by Dwight Merriam
- Commentary by Ed Sullivan
- Brief for Petitioner
- Brief for Respondent
- Oral Argument
- St. Bernard Parish Government v. United States, 2015 WL 2058969 (Federal Court of Claims 2015)
- Quinn v. Board of County Commissioners of Queen Anne’s County, 2017 WL 2883219 (4th Cir. 2017)
- Tattoo Shop:
- Weaver v. City of Montebello, 2019 WL 1454205 (C.D. Cal. 2019)
- Telecommunications:
- Nextel Communications of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc. v. Zoning Hearing Board of Ross Township, 2016 WL 1271385 (M.D. Pa. 2016)
- Time Sharing:
- Marchenko v. The Zoning Hearing Board of Pocono Township, No. 2021 C.D. 2015, 2016 WL 4978459 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2016)
- Variances:
- Marshall v. City of Philadelphia, 97 A.3d 323 (2014)
- E&F Associates , LLC v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Town of Fairfield, 127 A.3d 986 (Conn. 2015)
- Transfer of Development Rights:
- In re Snyder Group, Inc., 233 A.3d 1077 (Vt. 2020)
- Wetlands Taking:
- St. Bernard Parish Government v. United States, 121 Fed. Cl. 687 (Cl. Ct. 2015)
- Wind Farms:
- Miller v. Grundy County Board of Supervisors, 2015 WL 1817096 (Iowa Ct. App. 2015)
- Madison County Coalition for Scenic Preservation LLC v. Zoning Board of Adjustment of Madison County, Iowa 2021 WL 211154 (Iowa Ct. App. 2021)