Opinion ID: 1189865
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Deference to Sawyer's Factual Allegations

Text: The district court did not err in refusing to defer to Sawyer's contentions pertaining to the conditions and predicates that confine WAPA's authority to take property. It is true that, in deciding a Rule 12 motion, the district court must take all allegations of material fact as true and construe them in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party. Parks Sch. of Bus., Inc. v. Symington, 51 F.3d 1480, 1484 (9th Cir.1995). But the conditions and predicates to which Sawyer alludes are not allegations of fact. Id. They are either nonreviewable discretionary determinations  as in the case of the necessity determination, see supra Section I.A  or pure questions of law  as in the case of the public use inquiry, see supra Section I.B. The district court properly declined to accord Sawyer's positions any deference.