Legal Opinion
Hagee v. City of Evanston
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided January 18, 1982No. 81 C 4046PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
GETZENDANNER, District Judge.
Invoking 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1976), plaintiffs Joseph Hagee, Reed Mitchell Hagee and Raymond Jump seek to hold the City of Evanston, Illinois liable for the allegedly arbitrary behavior of its employees. Evanston has moved to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim. This motion is granted.
Count I
The following facts underlie Count I. 1 Plaintiffs contracted to purchase property in Evanston on May 18,1978. The purchase was contingent upon Evanston’s issuing a building permit authorizing the construction of 15 townhouses on the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Parratt v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Gryger v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Nectow v. City of CambridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
- Garner v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Joseph Hagee, Reed Mitchell Hagee and Raymond Jump v. City of Evanston, a Municipal CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- Hagee v. City of EvanstonDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1982
- Wozniak v. County of Du PageDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1983