Legal Opinion
Warth v. Seldin
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 1975No. 73-2024PublishedCited by 10,692 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
Petitioners, various organizations and individuals resident in the Rochester, N. Y., metropolitan area, brought this action in the District Court for the Western District of New York against the town of Penfield, an incorporated municipality adjacent to Rochester, and against members of Penfield’s Zoning, Planning, and Town Boards. Petitioners claimed that the town’s zoning ordinance, by its terms and as enforced by the defendant board members, respondents here, effectively excluded persons of low and moderate income from living in the town, in contravention of petitioners’ First, Ninth, and…
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