CITY OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS v. NEW WEST, L.P.

No. 18-1787.

921 F.3d 693 (2019)

CITY OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NEW WEST, L.P., and New Bluff, L.P., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 18, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl R. Buck , Attorney, RATHBUN, CSERVENYAK & KOZOL, Joliet, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

James D. Benak , Melanie Rachel Goldberg , Joshua A. Redman , Theodore R. Tetzlaff , Attorneys, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Tyce R. Walters , Attorney, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, Amicus Curiae for UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

Before Easterbrook, Sykes, and Barrett, Circuit Judges.


This appeal is New West V in a saga that began in 2005 when Joliet proposed to condemn and raze the Evergreen Terrace apartments as a public nuisance. By 2017 the district court had held that Joliet is entitled to condemn the buildings, had set just compensation at about $15 million, and had held that New West...

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