[Download] "Anderson V. Palestine Township" by United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Anderson V. Palestine Township
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Release Date : January 26, 1991
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
Description
A property dispute over a corner of a lot worth $10*fn1 culminated in the filing of this federal civil rights action. Paul Anderson and Franklin Kenyon allege that their neighbors acted in concert with various officials of Palestine Township to deprive them of their constitutional rights in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Anderson and Kenyon seek more than one million dollars in damages and attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988. The district court dismissed the civil rights suit, reasoning alternatively that a prior state court action barred the federal suit and that the complaint failed to state a cause of action. A pendent state claim for malicious prosecution was also dismissed. We affirm.