Ball v. Village of Streamwood

How courts have described this case

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• court may hypothesize reasons for legislation, even if the reasoning advanced did not motivate legislative action
• “In order to have standing to raise a constitutional issue, a plaintiff must bring himself within the class of persons to whom the law is objectionable”
• court may hypothesize reasons for legislation, even if the reasoning advanced did not motivate legislative action
• duress excused plaintiffs’ payment of a tax where their homes were subject to contracts to sell to third parties, and the village code provided civil penalties and fines for failure to pay the tax
• duress existed despite taxpayers’ failure to pay tax under protest where their residences were subject to contracts to sell to third parties and taxpayers would be subject to civil penalties for failure to pay the tax
• duress excused plaintiffs’ payment of a tax where their homes were subject to contracts to sell to third parties, and the village code provided civil penalties and fines for failure to pay the tax

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).