Legal Opinion
Amin Ijbara Equity Corp. v. Village of Oak Lawn
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 19, 2017No. 15-2655PublishedCited by 143 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Amin Ijbara owned a strip mall in the Village of Oak Lawn, Illinois, but defaulted on his mortgage payments, precipitating a foreclosure. He blames this misfortune on Oak Lawn officials, accusing them of waging a campaign of regulatory harassment that included frivolous inspections and citations for nonexistent or trumped-up building-code violations, which cost him money and scared off prospective tenants. He filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that this abuse of power violated his right to equal protection of the law.
The district judge dismissed the suit as'…
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