Austin v. City and County of Honolulu

840 F.2d 678 James W. AUSTIN; Carl E. York, Jr.; Richard F. Lert, Trustees of the Ariana A. Fairbanks Trust dated April 28, 1978; Robert O. Bullard, Jr.; Carl E. York, Jr., Successor Trustees of the 1976 Austin Revocable Trust dated December 11, 1976, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU, a municipal corporation, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee. Nos. 87-1540, 87-1571. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued Nov. 2, 1987. Submitted Dec. 3, 1987 * . Decided Feb. 24, 1988. Jonathan Chun, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant-appellant/cross-appellee. Ke-ching Ning, Green, Ning, Lilly & Jones, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs-appellees/cross-appellants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. Before BROWNING, Chief Judge, WRIGHT, and LEAVY, Circuit Judges. EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge: 1 In this case we consider whether the Supreme Court's decision in Williamson County Regional Planning Comm'n v. Hamilton Bank, 473 U.S. 172 , 105 S.Ct. 3108 , 87 L.Ed.2d 126 (1985) concerning inverse condemnation and ripeness, applies in cases in which state remedies available to the claimant are…