What Do Grapes and Federal Lawsuits Have in Common? Both Must be Ripe
More and more land use litigation is being brought in federal court as landowners, discouraged by their inability to get state courts to grant relief from what they perceive to be biased land use boards, attempt to focus the debate on violations of civil and constitutional rights, rather than state law. This growing trend raises the concern that an increasing body of land use law is now coming from judges who are unfamiliar with it, and sometimes render rulings that contradict state law.
