Legal Opinion
Almonte v. Pierce
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 28, 1987No. 87 Civ. 3358-CSHPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAIGHT, District Judge:
In this case I am asked to enjoin preliminarily the renting and occupation of a federally funded housing project in Brooklyn intended for the elderly or handicapped.
The named plaintiffs allege that they did not apply to the project because they were unlawfully not advised of it, or, being so advised, applied and were unlawfully declared ineligible. They seek to represent a class consisting of “low-income Puerto Ri-can, other Hispanic, and Black elderly and physically handicapped individuals who have been or will be denied equal access” to the building “because of…
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- Hills v. GautreauxSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Mitchell v. CuomoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1984
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