Legal Opinion
Charles F. Cutting v. Robert Muzzey
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 10, 1984No. 83-1544PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff, a developer, brought a civil rights action against the members of a town planning board, alleging that they violated the Constitution’s guarantees of due process and equal protection by imposing “outrageous conditions” 1 on the development of plaintiff’s subdivision. Plaintiff alleges that the board’s action was motivated by racial animus towards the plaintiff’s purchasers, all of whom had Italian surnames.
The district court dismissed the complaint on the ground that plaintiff, apparently not being of Italian origin, lacked standing to assert the equal…
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