Harris V. City Of Akron

LIVELY, Senior Circuit Judge. We must decide in this case whether the owner of real estate that was demolished by city officials is foreclosed from recovering damages in an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 because of his failure to plead and prove that no adequate state law remedy existed by which he could pursue his claim. Parratt v. Taylor, 451 U.S. 527, 68 L. Ed. 2d 420, 101 S. Ct. 1908 (1981); Vicory v. Walton, 721 F.2d 1062 (6th Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 834, 83 L. Ed. 2d 67, 105 S. Ct. 125 (1984). The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants, and we now affirm on different reasoning than that of the district court.