Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.

Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 27, 1926 Reargued October 12, 1926 Decided November 22, 1926
Full case name	Village of Euclid, Ohio, et al. v. Ambler Realty Company
Citations	272 U.S. 365 (more) 47 S. Ct. 114; 71 L. Ed. 303; 1926 U.S. LEXIS 8; 4 Ohio L. Abs. 816; 54 A.L.R. 1016
Case history
Prior	Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Holding
The Court held that the zoning ordinance was not an unreasonable extension of the village's police power and did not have the character of arbitrary fiat, and thus it was not unconstitutional.
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 Taft, Holmes, Brandeis, Sanford, Stone
Dissent	Van Devanter, McReynolds, Butler
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365 (1926), more commonly known as Euclid v. Ambler, was a United States Supreme Court landmark case^[1] argued in 1926. It was the first significant case regarding the relatively new practice of zoning. The Supreme Court's finding that local ordinance zoning was a valid exercise of the police power bolstered zoning in the United States and influenced other countries.