City of Little Rock v. Alexander Apartments, LLC; Arkansas Community Organizations; Melody Branch; Carolyn Ford…

Summary

The court affirmed summary judgment establishing that the City violated the property and possessory interests of Alexander Apartments and its tenants by ordering the complex closed and requiring tenants to vacate without providing a predeprivation or postdeprivation mechanism for review. It also affirmed the apartment owner's compensatory award because substantial evidence supported the lost-revenue and mitigation calculations. The court reversed and remanded the tenants' damages awards because the circuit court included injuries and events not causally connected to the City's December 2015 due-process violations.