301, 712, 2103 AND 3151 LLC v. CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS

No. 20-3493.

27 F.4th 1377 (2022)

301, 712, 2103 AND 3151 LLC; 12 Twenty-Second and 1827 LaSalle LLC; 137 East Seventeenth Street LLC; 1522 LaSalle Avenue LLC; 1728 Second Avenue and 1801 Third Avenue LLC; 1806 and 1810 Third Avenue LLC; 1816, 1820 and 1830 Stevens Avenue LLC; 1817 Second Avenue LLC; 1900 and 1906 Clinton Avenue LLC; 1924 Stevens Avenue LLC; 2020 Nicollet Avenue LLC; 2101 Third Avenue LLC; 2323 and 2401 Clinton Avenue LLC; 2417, 2423 and 2439 Blaisdell Avenue LLC; 2427 Blaisdell and 2432 First Avenue LLC; 25 Twenty-Fifth Street LLC; 2535 Clinton Avenue LLC; 2545 Blaisdell Avenue LLC; 2609 Hennepin Avenue LLC; 2633 Pleasant Avenue LLC; 2720 Pillsbury Avenue LLC; 2738 and 2750 Pillsbury Avenue LLC; 2809 Pleasant Avenue LLC; 600 Franklin Avenue LLC; Amy Smith; Blaisdell 3322, LLC; Bloomington 4035, LLC; Bryant Avenue Properties LLC; Colfax Apartments LLC; Dupont Properties LLC; Fletcher Properties, Inc.; Franklin Villa Partnership, L.L.P.; Fremont Apartments, LLC; Fremont Terrace Apartments, L.L.C.; Garfield Court Partnership, L.L.P.; Gasparre New Boston Square, LLC; Gateway Real Estate, L.L.C.; JEC Properties, LLC; Lagoon Apartments, LLC; LL LLC; Northern Gopher Enterprises, Inc.; Patricia L. Fletcher, Inc.; Ray Peterson, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, Defendant-Appellee National Apartment Association; Pacific Legal Foundation, Amici on Behalf of Appellant(s) Home Line; Housing Justice Center; Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid; Minnesota Collaborative Justice Initiative; Violence Free Minnesota, Amici on Behalf of Appellee(s).

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: March 14, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Hayes , Calli Jo Padilla , Cozen & O'Connor, Philadelphia, PA, Cassandra M. Jacobsen , Mark Alan Jacobson , Steven P. Katkov , Cozen & O'Connor, Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Brian Scott Carter , City Attorney's Office, Minneapolis, MN, for Defendant-Appellee.

Anthony L. Francois , Briscoe & Ivester, Brian Hodges, San Francisco, CA, Daniel Woislaw , Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for Amici on Behalf of Appellant(s).

Jon M. Greenbaum , Lawrence Reed McDonough , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Timothy L. Thompson , Housing Preservation Project, Saint Paul, MN, for Amici on Behalf of Appellee(s).

Before SMITH, Chief Judge, WOLLMAN and BENTON, Circuit Judges.


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