DOHERTY v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 95-1297.

75 F.3d 318 (1996)

Mavourneen DOHERTY, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Graham C. Grady, Judith C. Rice, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 1, 1996.

As Amended March 28, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay A. Schiller (argued), Chicago, IL, for Mavourneen Doherty.

Lawrence Rosenthal, Benna R. Solomon, Susan Haerr Zucker, Susan S. Sher, Meera Werth (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, Gail A. Niemann, Mark W. Lewis, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Law Department, Chicago, IL, for City of Chicago, Graham C. Grady and Ernest R. Wish.

Patrick A. Murphy, Robert R. Dlugajczyk (argued), Chicago, IL, for John C. Grace.

Mara S. Georges (argued), Rock, Fusco, Reynolds, Crowe & Garvey, Chicago, IL, Brian L. Crowe, Crowe & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Patrick Levar.

Before RIPPLE, MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

In her amended complaint, Mavourneen Doherty, a provider of space to charities for bingo games, alleges that the defendants conspired to violate her rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, she alleges that the defendants improperly required her to obtain a Public Place of Amusement (PPA) license for one bingo hall and denied her zoning certification for another. The district court dismissed the amended complaint for failure to state...

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