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062069P.pdf   01/23/2007  J. Cormack  v.  Candice Settle-Beshears
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-2069
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Ft. Smith   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and John
   R. Gibson, Circuit Judge]
   Civil case - civil rights. Claim that city's annexation of plaintiff's
   property and enforcement of its ordinance prohibiting the sale of
   fireworks was a regulatory taking and violated plaintiff's Fifth
   Amendment was properly dismissed as the federal courts are barred from
   considering the merits of takings claim until private litigants exhaust state
   remedies; plaintiff had an adequate postdeprivation remedy to address
   any claim that the city violated his Fourteenth Amendment rights by
   failing to provide him with adequate notice of the annexation; district
   court properly abstained from Fourth Amendment claims under the
   Younger doctrine.