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DeBlasio v. Zoning Board of Adjustment for the Township of West Amwell

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Overruled in part
Court
Third Circuit
Citation
53 F.3d 592
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
60 of 60
Citing cases (total)
60
Treatment dates
2003
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. DeBlasio v. Zoning Board of Adjustment for the Township of West Amwell's improper-motive standard for land-use substantive due process is no longer good law. United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc. v. Township of Warrington held that later Supreme Court authority requires conduct that shocks the conscience.
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DeBlasio continues to be cited for separate procedural due process and real-property rulings. All 60 flagged citations have been read. The confirmed treatment is listed below.

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60 later cases cite DeBlasio v. Zoning Board of Adjustment for the Township of West Amwell; 60 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Third Circuit held that DeBlasio's improper-motive test for land-use substantive due process could not survive the Supreme Court's later shocks-the-conscience standard.

    United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc. v. Township of Warrington · Third Circuit · filed

    In these cases, we held that a municipal land use decision violates substantive due process if it was made for any reason "unrelated to the merits," Herr v. Pequea Township, 274 F.3d 109, 111 (3d Cir.2001) (citing cases), or with any "improper motive." See, e.g., Woodwind Estates, Ltd. v. Gretkowski, 205 F.3d 118 (3d Cir.2000); Blanche Road Corp. v. Bensalem Township, 57 F.3d 253 (3d Cir.1995); DeBlasio v. Zoning Board of Adjustment, 53 F.3d 592 (3d Cir.1995); Parkway Garage, Inc. v. City of Philadelphia, 5 F.3d 685 (3d Cir.1993); Midnight Sessions, Ltd. v. City of Philadelphia, 945 F.2d 667 (3d Cir.1991). ... These cases, however, cannot be reconciled with Lewis's explanation of substantive due process analysis. ... We thus hold that, in light of Lewis, Bello and its progeny are no longer good law.
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