Legal Opinion
James Chongris and George Chongris v. Board of Appeals of the Town of Andover
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 12, 1987No. 86-1761PublishedCited by 281 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
James Chongris and George Chongris, brothers by birth and appellants by choice, felt mistreated at the hands of the powers-that-were in the suburban municipality of Andover, Massachusetts (Town). After they instituted a routine state court appeal of a municipal edict which stripped them of a building permit, see generally Chongris v. Board of Appeals of Andover, 17 Mass. App. 999, 459 N.E.2d 1245 (1984) (Chongris I), they sought to give the Town fathers their gruel by prosecuting a civil rights action in federal district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They named as…
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