Legal Opinion
Joseph Hagee, Reed Mitchell Hagee and Raymond Jump v. City of Evanston, a Municipal Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 9, 1984No. 83-1712PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
The appellants brought this action in the district court seeking damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Supp. IV 1980) for an alleged violation of their civil rights. The district court dismissed their suit on the basis of res judicata, finding that the appellants’ earlier state court suit, which stemmed from the same set of facts and in which they sought and won injunctive relief, barred them from later bringing this suit in federal court. On the appeal from that dismissal, we affirm the decision of the district court. 1
In September of 1978, the appellants obtained a building…
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