United States Fourth Circuit

In suit alleging that a recently enacted city ordinance impaired contracts previously entered into by the parties for the construction of water infrastructure to serve plaintiff's reservation, summary judgment for defendant city is affirmed where the ordinance did not impair the contracts at issue and, thus, the Contracts Clause of the U.S. Constitution was not violated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/20/2007
• Published 09/20/2007

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, TRAXLER, Circuit Judge, and WIDENER, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jerry Jay Bender, Baker, Ravenel & Bender, L.L.P., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  W. Mark White, Spencer & Spencer, P.A., Rock Hill, South Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  W. Chaplin Spencer, Jr., Spencer & Spencer, P.A., Rock Hill, South Carolina, for Appellee.