Legal Opinion
Township of River Vale v. Town of Orangetown
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 1, 1968No. 34, 39, Dockets 32232, 32371PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYS, Circuit Judge.
On June 26, 1967, defendant Town of Orangetown, a municipal corporation of the State of New York, adopted a local law that rezoned part of the town, including an area contiguous to the New Jersey border, from a residential district of one acre plots to an “office park” district. At the time the local law was passed the land that was rezoned was “mostly wooded and slope[d] up from the Hackensack River to Gilbert Avenue.” The zoning ordinance was enacted with a view to making possible the construction of a large office-research complex.
Plaintiffs are the Township of River…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Goldblatt v. Town of HempsteadSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Coleman v. MillerSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Nectow v. City of CambridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
- City of Trenton v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1923
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3Cited by38 opinions
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- Klim v. JonesDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1970
- Allen v. CoffelMissouri Court of Appeals · 1972
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