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Filing: City acting in contempt of court by continuing to deny Southside metal recycling facility permit
"This is about whether the city of Chicago is above the law," developers of a South Side metal recycling facility said in a motion, asking a Cook County judge to enforce an administrative judge's ruling that the city had illegally denied the permit it needs to operate its new $80M plant -
Chicago: Arwady free to use 'environmental justice' review to deny South Side metal yard permit
City Hall has appealed a decision by a Chicago administrative law judge, who had determined Chicago Public Health Commissioner used an environmental analysis not allowed under city ordinances to illegally deny a permit to the company formerly known as General Iron to operate a new recycling center -
Ruling: City Hall, Arwady improperly used 'environmental justice' analysis to deny Southside metal recycling center's permit
A Chicago administrative law judge reversed the decision of Chicago Public Health Commissioner Allison Arwady, who had denied a permit to the company formerly known as General Iron for a South Side metal recycling center. The denial had been based on a 'health impact assessment' that the judge said isn't allowed by law -
Metal recycler says it can show Chicago City Hall gave in to undue political pressure to deny permit
A company is claiming Chicago City Hall won't let it build a metal recycling plant on the Southeast Side, because of improper political pressure from community activists -
Southside Recycling developers to renew court fight, demand $100M+ from city for denying permit
The owners of the Southside Recycling metal recycling plant say the city's permit denial was motivated by politics, not science, and warned businesses from attempting to do business with the city, a "not reliable partner." -
Judge: Chicago's bow to activists, imperling General Iron permit, not 'final decision,' so not yet illegal taking
While Chicago may have violated its own permitting rules and state law at the behest of left-wing activists, the city hasn't yet "taken" General Iron's property, so the company can't yet sue the city in federal court, a federal judge said. -
Southside recycler lawsuit: City bowed to activists, violated rules, seized property by refusing permit; Owes $100M+
General Iron affiliate has asked a federal judge to order the city to pay it more than $100 million and issue a permit that it cannot legally deny, for a new metal recycling facility on Chicago's Southeast side.