Legal Opinion
Basim Esmail, Zabco Enterprises, Incorporated, and Nazco Enterprises, Incorporated v. Samuel T. MacRane Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 19, 1995No. 94-3285PublishedCited by 235 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Basim Esmail, a liquor dealer in Naper-ville, Illinois, brought suit in federal district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, complaining that he was being persecuted by the Mayor of Naperville in violation of Esmail’s right to the equal protection of the laws. The district judge dismissed the suit for failure to state a claim, and we must therefore take the facts alleged in the complaint as true, though of course without warranting that they are true.
The complaint is 22 pages long and contains 50 paragraphs. It unfolds the following story, which we simplify slightly. Esmail has…
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