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Type
Opinion
Author
Raymond M. Kethledge
Filed
July 9, 2025
Case
OPV Partners, LLC v. City of Lansing, MI
Case status
Decided

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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0334n.06 No. 24-2035 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT OPV PARTNERS, LLC, a Michigan limited liability ) FILED company, ) Jul 09, 2025 Plaintiff-Appellant, ) KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) v. ) ON APPEAL FROM THE ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT CITY OF LANSING, MICHIGAN, a Michigan ) COURT FOR THE WESTERN Municipality; RAWLEY VAN FOSSEN, Economic ) Development and Planning Director for the City of ) DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN Lansing, Michigan and NICHOLAS MONTRY, ) Deputy Economic Development and Planning OPINION ) Director for the City of Lansing, Michigan, in their individual and official capacities, ) ) Defendants-Appellees. ) Before: MOORE, GRIFFIN, and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges. KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge. City officials in Lansing, Michigan, denied OPV Partners, LLC, a certificate of compliance to continue to rent out units in an apartment complex that OPV had owned for nearly a decade. OPV sued Lansing and two city officials, alleging violations of the Fourteenth Amendment’s due-process clause and the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause (as incorporated by the Fourteenth), along with a state-law claim for breach of a settlement agr…

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