A City municipal transit agency did not violate equal protection, substantive due process or state anti-age discrimination laws when it disfavored some taxi cab medallion holders from accessing lucrative airport pickups because, among other things, the law was rationally related to legitimate government interests. San Francisco Taxi Coal. v. City & Cty. of San Francisco
Equal Protection
Permitting Scheme to Encourage Cooperation Between Owners of Surface Rights and Mineral Rights Did Not Violate Due Process or Equal Protection
By Christian Termyn on
Posted in Planning and Zoning
A zoning ordinance providing for expedited oil and gas permitting where owners of the mineral estate cooperate with surface owners did not grant surface owners so much control as to offend the mineral owners’ due process. Nor did disparate treatment of mineral owner permittees violate equal protection where County had legitimate objective of encouraging cooperation…