Legal Opinion
Coniston Corporation v. Village of Hoffman Estates
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 20, 1988No. 87-1890PublishedCited by 268 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The'plaintiffs own a tract of several hundred acres of land, originally undeveloped, in the Village of Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Their complaint, laid under the ubiquitous section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, charges that in turning down the site plan for a 17-acre parcel in the tract, the Village Board of Trustees and its members violated the Constitution and state law. The district court dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim.
The procedure for land development set forth in the Village’s ordinances — ordinances incorporated by…
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