Court Opinion

ID: 9475082
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 05:17:08.665194+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:44:30.330065
License: Public Domain

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I join Judge Rubin’s thoughtful opinion, writing only to add one note of emphasis. As Judge Rubin has demonstrated, this case comes to us in a unique procedural posture. A district court should seldom exercise pendent jurisdiction over a zoning matter for, as we recently made plain, zoning matters are peculiarly the province of state courts. Shelton v. City of College Station, 780 F.2d 475 (5th Cir.1986) (en banc), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 106 S.Ct. 3276, 91 L.Ed.2d 566 (1986).