United States Ninth Circuit

In an action against the County of Santa Barbara and several of its employees in federal court, alleging that the county had, through a false wetland delineation, temporarily taken plaintiffs' land without providing just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where plaintiffs' claim was based on the same underlying factual circumstances as the claims it raised in state court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/05/2010
• Decided 05/14/2010
• Published 05/14/2010

Judges

• Before HARRY PREGERSON and ROBERT R. BEEZER, Circuit Judges, and JAMES L. GRAHAM, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. David Breemer, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lisa A. Rothstein, Deputy County Counsel, Santa Barbara, CA, for the defendants-appellees.