Nectow v. City of Cambridge

Nectow v. City of Cambridge
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 19, 1928 Decided May 14, 1928
Full case name	Nectow v. City of Cambridge
Citations	277 U.S. 183 (more) 48 S. Ct. 447; 72 L.Ed. 842
Prior history	Appeal from Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Holding
The governmental power to interfere by zoning regulations with the general rights of the land owner by restricting the character of his use cannot be imposed if it does not bear a substantial relation to the public health, safety, morals, or general welfare.
Court membership
Chief Justice William H. Taft Associate Justices Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. · Willis Van Devanter James C. McReynolds · Louis Brandeis George Sutherland · Pierce Butler Edward T. Sanford · Harlan F. Stone
Case opinions
Majority	Sutherland, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. Const.

Nectow v. City of Cambridge, 277 U.S. 183 (1928), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court reversed the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling, and found that the invasion of the plaintiff's property right was "serious and highly injurious," and that the placement of the locus of the zoning ordinance would not promote the health, safety, convenience or general welfare of the inhabitants of Cambridge.^[1] It, along with Euclid v. Ambler, makes up the Supreme Court's case law on zoning.

References

1. Nectow v. City of Cambridge, 277 US 183, 188 (1928).