Browning-Ferris Indus. of St. Louis, Inc. v. Maryland Heights, City of

ELR Citation: ELR 20442
No(s). 88-2522-C-5 (E.D. Mo. Sep 24, 1990)

The court holds that a city violated a landfill operator's constitutional rights by arbitrarily denying the operator a permit for the landfill. The court first holds that the operator's action against the city is appropriate under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §1983. Courts have held that a corpo...