McDONOUGH ASSOCIATES, INC. v. GRUNLOH

No. 12-2702.

722 F.3d 1043 (2013)

McDONOUGH ASSOCIATES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bill GRUNLOH and Ann L. Schneider, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 16, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Sullivan (argued), Attorney, Martin, Brown, Sullivan, Roadman & Hartnett, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Richard S. Huszagh (argued), Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before CUDAHY, SYKES, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

This case presents an attempt by a state contractor, plaintiff McDonough Associates, Inc., to pursue what amounts to a breach of contract claim against the State of Illinois in federal court. Threatened with bankruptcy and collapse if it did not receive payments it contends were due from the state, McDonough presented the district court with a creative theory for relief under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Facing these...

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