Legal Opinion

421 Corp. v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County

Court of Appeals of Tennessee

Decided April 26, 2000PublishedCited by 86 opinions

1Opinion of the Court 1

OPINION

2Opinion of the Court · KochKoch, J.

in which TODD, P.J., M.S., and CANTRELL, J., joined.

This appeal involves a dispute between a sexually oriented business and a city over the business’s desire to expand onto adjoining property. After the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals denied its application for a building permit because the business had not met the requirements for the expansion of a nonconforming use, the business filed a petition for a common-law writ of certiorari in the Chancery Court for Davidson County asserting that it had satisfied the city’s standards for expanding a nonconforming use and that the Board was…

3Cases cited41 opinions

  1. Bordenkircher v. HayesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. Oyler v. BolesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  3. United States v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
  4. Wayte v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  5. Stein v. Davidson Hotel Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1997

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4Cited by86 opinions

  1. City of Brentwood v. Metropolitan Board of Zoning AppealsCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 2004
  2. State Ex Rel. Commissioner of Transportation v. Medicine Bird Black Bear White EagleCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 2001
  3. City of Chattanooga v. DavisTennessee Supreme Court · 2001
  4. Velda J. Shore v. Maple Lane Farms, LLCTennessee Supreme Court · 2013
  5. McGee v. BestCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 2002

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