Legal Opinion
Howard H. Gilbert, Jr. v. City of Cambridge
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 3, 1991No. 90-1907PublishedCited by 175 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Attempting by heroic efforts to sail through straits left windless by recent Supreme Court precedent, 1 certain property owners asked the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to overturn, on constitutional grounds, a rent control ordinance adopted in 1979 by the City of Cambridge (the Ordinance). 2 The district court did not allow the voyage to proceed. Gilbert v. Cambridge, 745 F.Supp. 42 (D.Mass.1990). The property owners appeal. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
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