Legal Opinion
Gore v. Turner
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 17, 1977No. 75-3640PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:
Janice Gore and Kathy Hobbs, the plaintiffs in the case on appeal, brought class actions against defendant Hozie Turner, alleging that he engaged in racial discrimination in the operation of his apartment complexes. The Gore class action and the Hobbs class action were tried separately to the district court without a jury. The district court held that defendant Turner racially discriminated against the class represented by Gore in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and § 1982 and that the class was entitled to injunctive relief. Although the district court awarded Gore…
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