Pizzato's Inc. v. City of Berwyn

PRESIDING JUSTICE JIGANTI

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an action by the plaintiffs, Pizzato’s Inc., to recover damages for violations of their civil rights under section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act. (42 U.S.C. §1983 (1982).) The violations stem from the alleged malicious and bad-faith refusal by the defendants, the City of Berwyn and Mayor Joseph J. Lanzillotti, the local liquor commissioner, to issue a liquor license to the plaintiffs. Lanzillotti moved to dismiss the claims against him on the basis that he enjoyed absolute immunity from suit while acting in his quasi-judicial…