COHEN v. CITY OF DES PLAINES

No. 92-3503.

8 F.3d 484 (1993)

Harriet COHEN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF DES PLAINES, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 25, 1993.

Rehearing Denied December 6, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Duffy and Forest J. Miles (argued), Richard J. Witry, McCarthy, Duffy, Neidhart & Snakard, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellee.

Richard T. Wimmer (argued), Arthur C. Thorpe, Patrick A. Lucansky, Klein, Thorpe & Jenkins, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellant.

Before BAUER, KANNE and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Harriet Cohen sued the City of Des Plaines, Illinois, and various city officials, claiming that a provision of the city's zoning ordinance regulating the use of church property in a residential district violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment as well as her right to equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment. The district court agreed, granted Cohen's motion for summary judgment, and subsequently awarded her...

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