Legal Opinion
Casa Marie, Inc. v. Superior Court of Puerto Rico for the District of Arecibo
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided November 15, 1990No. Civ. 90-2435 (JAF)PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
FUSTE, District Judge.
Casa Marie, Hogar Geriátrico, Inc. (“Casa Marie”) is a live-in elder-care facility currently home to approximately thirty-five elderly, mostly handicapped persons. Some neighbors in the residential area in which it is located want it to cease functioning. The neighbors sought and obtained a state court judgment ordering the owners to close the home, ostensibly on grounds that operation of the home violated a restrictive covenant 1 forbidding this particular use and also because of the failure of the owners to obtain a use variance under the building code…
2Cases cited38 opinions
- Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Younger v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Parratt v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Horizon House Developmental Services, Inc. v. Township of Upper SouthamptonDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1992
- Casa Marie Hogar Geriatrico, Inc. v. Rivera-SantosCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1994
- Oxford House-Evergreen v. City of PlainfieldDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1991
- Hargraves v. Capital City Mortgage Corp.District Court, District of Columbia · 2000
- Potomac Group Home Corp. v. Montgomery CountyDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1993
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