United States Seventh Circuit

In a federal lawsuit concerning a city's state suit to condemn a low-income housing complex, dismissal of the complex's complaint is reversed and remanded where: 1) 42 U.S.C. section 1983 allows a suit against state actors when the objective is to obtain a declaration that a rule of federal law supersedes the rules that the state actors are implementing; 2) partnerships, through the citizenship of their members, can sue under 42 U.S.C. section 1982; and 3) the complex had standing to pursue claims under the Fair Housing Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/22/2007
• Decided 07/05/2007
• Published 07/05/2007

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and WILLIAMS and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• F. Thomas Hecht (argued), Claudette P. Miller, Ungaretti & Harris, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carl Gigante, Peter A. Silverman (argued), Figliulo & Silverman, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.