Anderson Creek Partners, L.P., et al. v. County of Harnett, 382 N.C. 1, 876 S.E.2d 476 (2022)

In Anderson Creek Partners, land developers represented by John Scarbrough argued that a constitutional test established in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Fifth Amendment “takings” jurisprudence applied to legislatively imposed land use exactions—a view held at the time by only a minority of states. The North Carolina Supreme Court agreed. Two years later, the U.S. Supreme Court reached the same conclusion in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California, 601 U.S. 267 (2024), a case in which the plaintiff-landowner used Anderson Creek Partners to support his arguments.