Legal Opinion
Flores v. Lackage
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 31, 2013No. 10-CV-06026PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*763Memorandum Opinion and Order
EDMOND E. CHANG, District Judge.
December 2008 was a colder-than-normal month in Chicago.1 December 22 was frigid: the high was 7°F, the low was -4°F, and 4 inches of snow sat on the ground. So conditions were ripe for a dispute between neighbors over calling “dibs” on a parking spot. Some Chicagoans believe that city tradition (or perhaps a Lockean view of the right to the fruits of one’s labor) allows them to place a chair, or some other placeholder, in an on-street parking spot that they’ve freshly shoveled, thereby calling “dibs” and saving the space for…
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