Bellevue, WA
Appeals Lawyer at Bellevue, WA
Practice Areas: Appeals, Constitutional ... +3 more
OUTCOME: Victory at US Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court reversed a Florida decision holding that the Fifth Amendment did not protect against exaction of money that is unrelated to any impacts of a proposed development. The unconstitution ... al conditions doctrine prohibits government from demanding excessive or unrelated dedications of property (including real property, money, personal property) as a condition of permit approval.)
OUTCOME: Victory at U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court reversed a Federal Circuit decision that held that 6 years of flooding caused by the a government’s water management policy could not, as a matter of law, constitute a taking because ... it was the result of an “ad hoc or temporary” government policy; a temporary interference with private property can give rise to t taking within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment
OUTCOME: Positive decision of the Ninth Circuit
U.S. commissioner was not insulated from the president’s decision to terminate his appointment after the commissioner threatened to destroy a private garden retaining wall
OUTCOME: Positive decision of US Supreme Court
Discharge of slurry is not subject to the Environmental Protection Agency’s effluent limitation and performance standard permits
OUTCOME: Victory at Washington state court of appeals
A county environmental regulation requiring all rural property owners to set aside 50-65% of their land in natural vegetation violated the constitutional rough proportionality requirement as incorporat ... ed in state law
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