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LaFALCE v. HOUSTON

No. 82-3035.

712 F.2d 292 (1983)

Paul A. LaFALCE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael HOUSTON and City of Springfield, Illinois, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 14, 1983.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 9, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Lee Leahy, Leahy & Leahy, Springfield, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert M. Rogers, Office of Corp. Counsel, City of Springfield, Springfield, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUDAHY and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and ROSENN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 9, 1983.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

We are asked to hold that the First Amendment, as applied to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, forbids a city to use political criteria in awarding public contracts. The complaint, which was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and dismissed below on the defendants' Rule 12(b)(6) motion, alleges that the plaintiff submitted a bid to the City of...

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