Legal Opinion
Donald W. Pelfresne v. Village of Williams Bay
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 17, 1991No. 89-3060PublishedCited by 158 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The district court dismissed Donald Pelfresne’s suit against a municipality and a number of its officials and employees as barred by the Anti-Injunction Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2283, and then refused to allow him to amend his complaint. The appeal presents interesting questions, rarely encountered in a federal court, of property law.
In November 1984 the Village of Williams Bay in Walworth County, Wisconsin brought suit in the Circuit Court of Walworth County against Michael Schiessle. The suit sought a court order to raze four single-family houses located on property owned by…
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