Legal Opinion
J. Fred Creek v. Village of Westhaven, Illinois Housing Development Authority, Village of Orland Park
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 8, 1998No. 97-1904PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves a civil rights suit that has been before us previously, in 1996. See Creek v. Village of Westhaven, 80 F.3d 186 (7th Cir.1996) (“Creek I”). At that time we stated that this case was “unfortunately protracted.” The dispute is now closing in on its sixteenth birthday, a landmark that no piece of litigation should reach. Our decision today, hopefully, will provide an overdue closure to the controversy.
The plaintiff Fred Creek, a real estate developer, brought suit against a community 1 claiming that the community acted with racial animus in stymieing…
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