Catanzaro v. Weiden

KEITH, Circuit Judge:

This is a civil rights action by which the plaintiffs assert that defendants, City of Middletown, Mayor Joseph DeStefano, and Alfred Fusco, the Middletown Commissioner of Public Works (collectively the “City”), violated their due process property rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3601, et seq. (“FHA”). The district court granted the City’s motion for summary judgment, holding that a municipality’s emergency decision to demolish perceived dangerous buildings could not be “repackaged” as a…