Legal Opinion
Flower Cab Co. v. Petitte
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 4, 1982No. 82-2208PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Chapter 28, section 28-9.1, of the Municipal Code of the City of Chicago provides that taxicab licenses “shall be assignable,” with certain qualifications not pertinent to this case. On July 16, 1982, the Commissioner of Consumer Services, who is responsible for administering Chapter 28 (see Munic.Code, ch. 16, § 16-4(2)), announced that she would not act on any pending applications to assign taxicab licenses because a proposed ordinance prohibiting such assignment had been introduced in the City Council the day before. A few days earlier Checker Taxi Company had agreed…
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3Cited by44 opinions
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