Richland Park Homeowners Ass'n v. Pierce

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• holding that County Board’s issuance of a declaration that plaintiff’s road was public sufficed to impose liability although state law allowed such a declaration
• upholding award of attorney's fees to defendants immunized from liability by Noerr-Pennington for petitioning government to declare road spanning plaintiff's land public
• upholding Monell liability over county’s argument that “it was merely acting according to state law, rather than carrying out County policy,” because policy was discretionary
• upholding award of attorney's fees to defendants immunized from liability by Noerr-Pennington for petitioning government to declare r oad spanning plaintiff 's land public
• in that case the Commissioners issued and recorded a “Declaration of Public Road” absent notice or a hearing
• activity of property owners who urged county officials not to close what they believed was public road \falls within the first amendment's protection of the right to petition the government for redress of grievances\

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