Grace Olech v. Village of Willowbrook

How courts have described this case

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• holding, that the equal protection clause can be invoked “by a person who can prove that ‘action taken by the state ... was a spiteful effort to ‘get’ him for reasons wholly unrelated to any legitimate state objective’ ”
• case allowed to proceed on pleading where plaintiff alleged she was “picked on” out of “sheer vindictiveness” by government officials, in violation of equal protection clause
• plaintiff alleged that disparate treatment due to prior lawsuit filed by plaintiff against defendant
• “If the defendant would have taken the complained-of action anyway, even if it didn’t have the animus, the animus would not condemn the action; a tincture of ill will does not invalidate governmental action.”
• “[A] tincture of ill will does not invalidate governmental action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).