Legal Opinion
Highwoods Properties, Inc. v. City of Memphis
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided July 27, 2009No. W2007-00454-SC-R11-CVPublishedCited by 73 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · WadeGary R. Wade, J.
in which JANICE M. HOLDER, C.J., CORNELIA A. CLARK, and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined. WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., J. filed a separate dissenting opinion.
The Plaintiffs filed an action for declaratory judgment seeking to set aside a consent judgment entered in a lawsuit between property owners in an area of a proposed annexation and the City of Memphis. The earlier lawsuit, which the Plaintiffs failed to timely join, was a quo war-ranto challenge to an ordinance purporting to annex certain territory contiguous to the boundaries of the City. The consent judgment provided for the annexation of…
3Cases cited61 opinions
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- Hunter v. City of PittsburghSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
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- Eastman Chemical Co. v. JohnsonTennessee Supreme Court · 2004
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