A Stamford judge has vacated a $5 million verdict awarded to a developer for alleged violations of its constitutional rights because the developer never applied to a town planning and zoning commission for approval to build a subdivision.
Plaintiff Stones Trail LLC claimed that Weston officials prevented it from legally developing and selling six residential lots and that, as a result, it lost the property in foreclosure because it couldn’t pay its $1.1 million mortgage with Ridgefield Bank. Among other legal claims, Stones Trail brought three civil rights claims under 42 U.S.C. §1983.
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