FREEMAN v. CITY OF DALLAS

No. 97-10907.

186 F.3d 601 (1999)

Charles FREEMAN and Rosalyn Brown, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, v. CITY OF DALLAS, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 18, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura Beth Beshara, Michael M. Daniel, Dallas, TX, for Freeman and Brown.

Walter Columbus Davis, III, William Kent McIlyar, Dallas, TX, for City of Dallas.

Before EMILIO M. GARZA, BENAVIDES and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.


DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

This case presents the questions of whether the seizure and destruction of the Plaintiffs' vacant apartment buildings by the City of Dallas, as "urban nuisances," based only on the findings and order of a panel of the City's Urban Rehabilitation Standards Board: (1) violated the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments because the owners were not given an opportunity for an adversary hearing before a neutral magistrate and...

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