Mid-American Waste Systems, Inc., and Mid-American Waste Systems of Indiana, Inc. v. City of Gary, Indiana

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Depositing garbage in landfills is not exactly a fundamental right, either . . . A claim that the Constitution protects this industry from public control—even when the landfill is public property—would bring nothing but belly laughs.”
• Contract dispute between municipality and company contracted to operate landfill did not give rise to a substantive due process claim
• district court’s grant of a TRO was one reason supporting this court’s determination that a claim was not frivolous for jurisdictional purposes
• “And the due process clause does not require, or even permit, federal courts to enforce the substantive promises in state laws and regulations.”
• “And the due process clause does not require, or even permit, federal courts to enforce the substantive promises in state laws and regulations.”
• “A judge reckoning a compensatory award must make subsidiary findings that permit the parties (and the court of appeals) to know the basis of the decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).