Legal Opinion
Frank H. Glatt v. Chicago Park District, Jim Halpern, and Robert Nelson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 9, 1996No. 95-2932PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Frank Glatt, the owner of a 40-foot yacht, was distressed when the Chicago Park District, the owner of Diversey Harbor in Chicago, reassigned him from slip D19 in the harbor to slip D5. So, since this is America, he brought suit against the Park District and two of its employees under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that the defendants had violated his constitutional rights. His principal claim is that he had a property right in D19, within the meaning of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which the defendants deprived him of without due process of law. The…
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