United States Sixth Circuit

In plaintiffs' 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against the City of Cleveland, claiming that the city's decision to enforce its traffic camera ordinance against drivers who lease their cars constituted an unconstitutional taking of private property without just compensation because the ordinance originally did not provide for lessee liability, district court's dismissal of the suit for failure to state a cause of action under the Takings Clause of either the United States or Ohio Constitution is affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded where: 1) plaintiffs have failed to plead a cause of action under the Takings Clause as the challenged ordinance does not seize or otherwise impair an identifiable fund of money; but 2) the district court's judgment on plaintiffs' state law claims is reversed and remanded as the district court did not analyze plaintiffs' claim which asserted that the city's enforcement of the traffic camera ordinance unjustly enriched the city.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/04/2010
• Decided 11/09/2010
• Published 11/09/2010

Judges

• MAYS

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas A. Muzilla, Gary Scott Singletary