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Nashville Downtown Platinum, LLC v. Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Middle Division, No. M2017-00450-COA-R3-CV · judgment December 8, 2017

Certiorari denied · October 1, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Does Tennessee’s method for calculating just compensation in eminent domain cases, as applied by the trial court, violate the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?

  2. Was Petitioner denied the right to due process afforded by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution as a result of the trial court’s individual and cumulative rulings preventing Petitioner from presenting key evidence on just compensation? (i)

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Gregory E. Ostfeld
Greenbert Traurig, LLP

For respondent
Gregory Brian Smith Jackson
BUTLER SNOW LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 01 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 01 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
  3. Jul 12 2018
    Brief of respondent Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency in opposition filed.
  4. Jun 13 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 16, 2018)