State court for property claims
Barry v. City of Los Angeles
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Mike Barry and other operators of a Los Angeles hotel say the city’s residential-hotel rules took their property without fair payment, a claim known as a regulatory taking.
- Who it affects
- The denial ends the operators’ request for Supreme Court review, but does not decide their property-taking claim or whether a related state case must go first.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
A federal court paused their claim while a state court considers their challenge to a city citation; their petition asks whether federal courts can require the state case to go first.
Barry and other hotel operators say Los Angeles’s residential-hotel rules took their property without fair payment.
A federal court paused the operators’ property-taking claim while a state court considered their challenge to a city citation.
Question presented
Whether federal courts in invoking the Pullman abstention doctrine in a Fifth Amendment takings claim filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, requiring plaintiffs to first litigate their pendent claims in state court imposes an unjustifiable burden on plaintiffs that conflicts with this Court’s decision in Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania , 588 U.S. 139 S.Ct. 2162 (2019) and the Court’s takings jurisprudence?
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