Legal Opinion
Vaughn v. King
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 29, 1999No. Nos. 97-3458, 97-3494PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Cora Vaughn, her law partner, Reginald Marcus, and her law firm, Vaughn and Associates, P.C. (collectively, the plaintiffs), filed this action against Scott King, the current mayor of Gary, Indiana, the Gary Sanitary District and the City of Gary (collectively, the defendants). The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had breached several contracts by failing to pay for legal services. The plaintiffs also alleged that, by failing to provide the plaintiffs with any process prior to refusing to pay for the legal services, the defendants had violated rights secured by the…
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