Moreland Properties, LLC v. City of Thornton

ORDER AND MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

EDWARD W. NOTTINGHAM, Chief Judge.

This is a civil rights case. Plaintiff Moreland Properties, LLC, alleges that Defendant City of Thornton violated its Fourteenth Amendment right to procedural due process by, inter alia, enacting an ordinance that deprived it of certain uses of its land without providing adequate process. Plaintiff additionally seeks a declaratory judgment that Defendant’s ordinance is ultra vires and void, although (as discussed below) its current briefing effectively subsumes its request for a declaratory judgment into its procedural due…