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TAAKE v. COUNTY OF MONROE

No. 07-2620.

530 F.3d 538 (2008)

Gene A. TAAKE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF MONROE, a Body Corporate and Politic of the State of Illinois, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 18, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy A. Gutknecht (argued), Crowder & Scoggins, Columbia, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Brian T. Kreisler (argued), Becker, Paulson, Hoerner & Thompson, Belleville, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before CUDAHY, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Gene Taake brought suit in federal district court, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in an attempt to force the County of Monroe into selling him a piece of land that Taake argues the County contractually agreed to sell him. Taake alleged a deprivation of his rights to procedural and substantive due process under the United States Constitution. See U.S. Const. amend. XIV. He also raised a state-law breach-of-contract claim, sought specific...

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