Braun v. Ann Arbor Charter Township

OPINION

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

I

In this Takings Clause and Due Process case, landowners who sought to rezone their farmland for a trailer park and other residential development challenge the district court’s order granting the defendant Township’s motion for summary judgment. The district court held that the plaintiffs’ Takings Clause claim was not ripe for review in the federal courts due to the rule of Williamson County v. Hamilton Bank, 473 U.S. 172, 105 S.Ct. 3108, 87 L.Ed.2d 126 (1985), which requires that a plaintiff first give the state court an opportunity to adjudicate the issue of…