PELFRESNE v. VILLAGE OF WILLIAMS BAY

No. 89-3060.

917 F.2d 1017 (1990)

Donald W. PELFRESNE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VILLAGE OF WILLIAMS BAY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 8, 1990.

Rehearing Denied January 17, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard S. Shifflett, Michael F. Csar, Burke, Wilson & McIlvaine, Celeste Cinquino, Righeimer, Martin & Cinquino, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Richard R. Grant, Louis Gage, Consigny, Andrews, Hemming & Grant, Janesville, Wis., for defendants-appellees.

Before WOOD, Jr., POSNER, and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The district court dismissed Donald Pelfresne's suit against a municipality and a number of its officials and employees as barred by the Anti-Injunction Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2283, and then refused to allow him to amend his complaint. The appeal presents interesting questions, rarely encountered in a federal court, of property law.

In November 1984 the Village of Williams Bay in Walworth County, Wisconsin brought suit in the Circuit...

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