Stubblefield Construction Co. v. City of San Bernardino

Opinion

HOLLENHORST, J.

This is an action for violation of plaintiffs’ civil rights under 42 United States Code section 1983. The action arose out of defendant city’s handling of plaintiffs’ application to build apartment buildings on a 29.3-acre parcel in the northeastern foothills of the city. Plaintiffs contend that the city violated their substantive due process and equal protection rights by allegedly deliberately inflicting harm “when [city officials] irrationally and arbitrarily manipulated City processes and procedures, for no legitimate reason, so as to prevent Stubblefield from…