Adams v. Joseph F. Sanson Investment Company

MEMORANDUM OPINION RE PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

ROGER D. FOLEY, Chief Judge.

FACTS

This is an action pursuant to 42 U.S. C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202 for damages and for injunctive and declaratory relief. Plaintiffs seek to have this Court declare the landlord lien laws of Nevada (NRS §§ 108.510, 108.-520 and 108.530) unconstitutional insofar as they allow deprivation of property without due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Jurisdiction is asserted under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1343(3).

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, rented a house in North…