Legal Opinion
Platteville Area Apartment Association v. City of Platteville
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 18, 1999No. 98-3070, 98-3148PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Owners and tenants of rental housing in the City of Platteville, Wisconsin, brought this suit in federal district court to enjoin, primax-ily as a violation of the Fourth Amendment, the enforcement of a city ordinance that authorizes periodic searches of rental housing to determine compliance with the city’s housing code. The district court gave the plaintiffs.some of the relief they sought but not all, and both sides have appealed. The principal issue concerns the propriety of searching for violations not only of the health and safety provisions of the code, but also of…
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