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093915P.pdf 12/27/2010 Rogers Group, Inc. v. City of Fayetteville
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 09-3915
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Fayetteville
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Bye and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Injunctions. District court did not err in enjoining
enforcement of an ordinance seeking to limit the operation of rock
quarries within one mile of the city limits; under Arkansas law, a city can
only regulate a quarry if it is found to be a nuisance and a quarry can only
be declared a nuisance by a court of competent jurisdiction; in the
absence of such a judicial determination, the city has no statutory
authority to regulate the quarry in the guise of abating a nuisance; the
district court did not err in finding the quarry had established a threat of
irreparable harm if it was forced to operate under the ordinance's
restrictions.