Philly's v. Byrne

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

These appeals are from the dismissal, on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, of a suit under section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (now 42 U.S.C. § 1983) against Chicago’s (former) mayor and liquor control commissioner. The suit was for damages and injunctive relief, and alleged that the operation of Illinois’ local-option liquor law, which so far as relevant here allows the voters in a precinct to vote the precinct “dry,” deprived the plaintiffs of property without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Other constitutional violations…