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142272P.pdf 07/01/2015 Elsie Glickert v. The Loop Trolley Trans., etc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-2272
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Murphy, Circuit Judge, and Brooks,
District Judge]
Civil case - Civil Procedure. In action challenging the construction and
operation of a trolley-car system in St. Louis and University City,
Missouri, the district court did not err in dismissing plaintiffs' due
process and equal protection claims without affording them an opportunity
to supply more particularized allegations to establish their standing as
they did not submit a motion to amend or a proposed amendment and did not
indicate what a proposed amended pleading might have contained; nor did
the court err in finding plaintiffs lacked standing to assert equal
protection and due process claims because these claims were not an
assertion of their own legal rights; a fourth plaintiff who actually owned
property in the proposed trolley development district had publication
notice of a related law suit in state court and was bound by it; claim
that the notice was constitutionally defective was not raised in the
district court and the argument was waived.