Legal Opinion
Parvati Corp. v. City of Oak Forest
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 1, 2013No. 12-1954PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The City of Oak Forest, Illinois, is a largely suburban community about a half hour’s drive from downtown Chicago. A company named Parvati that owned a hotel in Oak Forest sued the City and a number of its officials charging racial discrimination in zoning, in violation of 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1982, and also charging that the City’s zoning ordinance is unconstitutionally vague. The company seeks damages caused by the City’s refusal to allow it to sell the hotel for conversion to a retirement home likely to be occupied mainly or exclusively by black people. (It is…
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