Legal Opinion
Love Church v. City of Evanston
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 3, 1987No. 86 C 9850PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
GRADY, Chief Judge.
This case is before us on the motion of plaintiff Love Church, Inc. (“Love Church” or “plaintiff”) for summary judgment on the ground that defendant City of Evans-ton’s (“Evanston”) zoning ordinance violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. For the reasons below, plaintiffs motion is granted.
FACTS
■We set forth the facts of this case in our previous memorandum opinion and reprint them here for convenience’s sake:
Plaintiff Love Church is a not-for-profit corporation established in June 1985. Complaint, Affidavit of Marzell Gill at ¶…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Plyler v. DoeSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- City of New Orleans v. DukesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Love Church, an Illinois Not-For-Profit Corporation, Cross-Appellant v. City of Evanston, an Illinois Municipal Corporation, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1990
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- Westchester Day School v. Village of MamaroneckDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2003
- Mintz v. Roman Catholic Bishop of SpringfieldDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2006
- Immanuel Baptist Church v. City of Chi.District Court, E.D. Illinois · 2017
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