Legal Opinion
Doe v. City of Butler
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 29, 1989No. 88-3691PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, who seek to represent a class of battered women in need of temporary shelter in Butler County, Pennsylvania to escape infliction of domestic violence, filed a class action suit challenging on constitutional and statutory grounds Butler’s zoning regulation which limits transitional dwellings to a total of six persons and a supervisory family or person. In their complaint, plaintiffs claimed, inter alia, that the six-person limit for transitional dwellings is a violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, associational…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
- National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama Ex Rel. PattersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Bradley v. School Bd. of RichmondSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Roberts v. United States JayceesSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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3Cited by43 opinions
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