SINCLAIR OIL CORP. v. COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA

No. 94-56611.

96 F.3d 401 (1996)

SINCLAIR OIL CORPORATION, a Wyoming Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, a Political Subdivision of the State of California; Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael M. Berger, Berger & Norton, Santa Monica, California, for plaintiff-appellant.

Paula F. Frantz, County of Santa Barbara County Counsel's Office, Santa Barbara, California; David Pettit and Sherryl E. Michaelson, Hedges & Caldwell, Los Angeles, California, for defendants-appellees.

Before: FLOYD R. GIBSON, NOONAN, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


FLOYD R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge:

Sinclair Oil Corporation ("Sinclair"), the owner of six lots comprising 265 acres of undeveloped coastal land in Santa Barbara County, California ("the County"), filed a suit alleging primarily that the County's exercise of its regulatory powers had effected a "taking" of Sinclair's property for which "just compensation" was due under the federal and state constitutions. The district court dismissed four of Sinclair's claims as unripe...

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