Legal Opinion
Roger Wermager and Lola Wermager v. Cormorant Township Board
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 23, 1983No. 82-1732PublishedCited by 163 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS T. ROBERTS, District Judge.
This is an action brought under the aegis of 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in which Roger and Lola Wermager seek declaratory and injunctive relief in respect of a zoning ordinance adopted by defendant Cormorant Township Board (“the Township”). Their claim is based upon assertions that the ordinance in question is arbitrary and capricious and hence invalid; that it cannot lawfully be applied to their property in any event, since they have a “vested” right to the land use which the ordinance would prohibit; and that if the ordinance were to be applied to their property it…
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