United States Ninth Circuit

Hawaii's Act 257, which regulates the maximum rent an oil company can charge dealers who lease company-owned service stations, effects a regulatory taking in violation of the Takings Clause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/10/2003
• Decided 04/01/2004
• Published 04/01/2004

Judges

• BEEZER, Circuit Judge:, Before: D.W. NELSON, BEEZER, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert G. Dreher, Special Deputy Attorney General, Troutman Sanders LLP, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellants., Craig E. Stewart, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.