Legal Opinion

Alarm Detection Sys., Inc. v. Vill. of Schaumburg, Corp.

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided July 15, 2019No. 18-3316PublishedCited by 153 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

St. Eve, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is one of two we decide today regarding the market for commercial fire-alarm services in Chicago's suburbs. The current case takes us to the Village of Schaumburg.

In 2016, Schaumburg passed an ordinance that requires commercial buildings to send fire-alarm signals directly to the local 911 dispatch center. That decision, sensible as it may seem, comes at an economic cost: as implemented, the ordinance threatens to exclude from the market all but one alarm-system provider. This is because the area's dispatch center, Northwest Central Dispatch System…

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