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Opinion
Filed
July 18, 2019
Case
Janice Duffner v. City of St. Peters, Missouri
Case status
Decided

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COLLOTON, Circuit Judge. Janice Duffner, along with her late husband Carl, sued the City of St. Peters, Missouri, to challenge a city ordinance that requires at least fifty percent of their residential yard to contain turf grass. The district court dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that the Duffners failed to show that the ordinance violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendmen…

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