United States Second Circuit

Litigants who pursue inverse condemnation actions in state court in order to comply with Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank, 473 U.S. 172 (1985), may reserve their federal takings claims for later resolution in federal court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/28/2003
• Published 08/28/2003

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge., Before:  NEWMAN, WINTER, and B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Timothy S. Hollister (Patrick M. Fahey, on the brief), Shipman & Goodwin LLP, Hartford, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Mark A. Chertok, Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C., New York, NY (Duane Desiderio and Mary Lynn Pickel, National Association of Home Builders, Washington, D.C., Michael M. Berger, Berger & Norton, Los Angeles, CA, and William H. Ethier, HBA of Connecticut, Inc., West Hartford, CT, of counsel), filed a brief for Amici Curiae National Association of Home Builders and Home Builders Association of Connecticut, Inc. in support of plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. Snook, Assistant Attorney General, for Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of the State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, for Defendant-Appellee.