Legal Opinion

Johnson v. Tamsberg

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided July 31, 1970No. 13941PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiff, a public housing tenant in Charleston, South Carolina, brought this class action to challenge the administrative "procedures by which the Housing Authority decided to remove her from her rented quarters. She seeks declaratory and injunctive relief.

The facts of the ease are as follows. On June 4, 1969 the Housing Authority Director, defendant Tamsberg, witnessed plaintiff’s son breaking window panes in a Housing Authority unit. Further investigation convinced him that this was not an isolated incident and that Mrs. Johnson’s children had been involved in…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Goldberg v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  2. Thorpe v. Housing Authority of DurhamSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. Cameron v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  4. Escalera v. New York City Housing AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1970

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Caulder v. Durham Housing AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1970
  2. Thelma Joy, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Holland Daniels, ChairmanCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1973
  3. Aguiar v. Hawaii Housing AuthorityHawaii Supreme Court · 1974
  4. Gentile v. Rent Control Board of SomervilleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
  5. Evelyn Glover v. The Housing Authority of the City of Bessemer, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971

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