Legal Opinion
Limestone Development v. Village of Lemont, Ill.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 1, 2008No. 07-1438PublishedCited by 271 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Limestone Development Corporation owned a 55-acre tract of land, in a rural area within the limits of the Village of Lemont (a small town — population 13,-000 — near Chicago), that it wanted to develop. Limestone charges that the Village and other public bodies, controlled by or acting in cahoots with the mayor, other Village officials, and K.A. Steel Chemicals, another Village landowner, constituted an enterprise whose affairs were conducted through a pattern of racketeering activity, in violation of RICO, and that the Village also violated the equal protection clause…
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