VR Acquisitions, LLC v. Wasatch County

MORITZ, Circuit Judge.

VR Acquisitions, LLC (VRA) owns a roughly 6,700-acre property in Utah’s Jordanelle Basin (the VR property). VRA brought this action in 2015, asserting three federal constitutional claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and five state-law claims. All of the claims rested, to some degree, on VRA’s assertion that an invalid assessment lien was recorded against the VR property in 2009 — three years before VRA bought the property. The district court dismissed all eight claims with prejudice under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), and VRA appeals. Because the district court properly dismissed…