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Mary Valencia v. City of Springfield, 883 F.3d 959 (2018)

Citation
Mary Valencia v. City of Springfield, 883 F.3d 959 (2018)
Parent Document
Mary Valencia v. City of Springfield, 883 F.3d 959 (2018)
Effective Date
2018-03-01

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8 Although the City appealed in hopes of resolving the proper inter-
pretation of its Code, we believe such a ruling would be best made with
the assistance of a full record. The City’s fear that the district court’s pre-
liminary interpretation “renders moot any factual determination that
might be made” at trial is overstated. “[T]he granting of a preliminary in-
junction is not a decision on the merits of the plaintiff’s suit.” Ayres v. City
of Chicago, 125 F.3d 1010, 1013 (7th Cir. 1997). Rather, “[i]t is merely a de-
cision that the suit has enough merit—which need not be great merit—to
justify an order that will freeze the situation, in the plaintiff’s favor, for
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