Legal Opinion

Johnnie Lee Billington v. Lewis C. Underwood, Individually and as Executive Director of the Housing Authority of the City of Tifton, Georgia

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided March 6, 1980No. 79-2669PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Per curiam

In April 1978, appellant Johnnie Lee Billington applied to the Housing Authority of the City of Tifton, Georgia, 1 for an apartment in a publicly subsidized housing project. On April 20, 1978, Mr. Billington’s counsel informed the housing authority that his current landlord had filed a dispossessory warrant against him but that the action had been dismissed by a justice of the peace after a hearing. On June 1,1978, the housing authority informed Mr. Billington by letter that he had been found ineligible 2 for public housing because his “previous housing records and habits indicate a…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Mathews v. EldridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  2. Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  3. Goldberg v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  4. Armstrong v. ManzoSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  5. Tumey v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1927

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Ridgely v. Federal Emergency Management AgencyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2008
  2. Eunice Samuels, Lorraine Warren v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1985
  3. Grossmuller v. International Union, United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Uaw, Local 813Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1983
  4. Shakhnes Ex Rel. Shakhnes v. BerlinCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2012
  5. Municipal Services Corp. v. State Ex Rel. North Dakota Department of Health & Consolidated LaboratoriesNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1992

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