Legal Opinion
Ronald Loesel v. City of Frankenmuth
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 20, 2012No. 10-2354PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the legality of actions taken by the City of Frankenmuth (the City) to keep a Wal-Mart supereenter from being built on land owned by the Loesel family in Frankenmuth Township (the Township). As the result of a post purchase-agreement ordinance that restricted the size of any new buildings on the property to 65,000 square feet or less, Wal-Mart Real Estate Business Trust (Wal-Mart) terminated its conditional agreement to purchase the Loesels’ land for $4 million.
The Loesels sued the City for damages, claiming that the selective…
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