United States Fifth Circuit

County's use of an illegitimate plan that financially benefitted well-connected developers, along with the failure to put forth any rational basis for denying property owners access to an abutting street, violated the due process rights of local property owners.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2000
• Published 12/22/2000

Judges

• KING, Chief Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and REYNALDO G. GARZA and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• H. Dixon Montague (argued), Alan B. Daughtry, Kathleen A. Gallagher, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Bruce S. Powers (argued), Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.