Gussie Davis v. Mansfield Metropolitan Housing Authority

GIBBONS, District Judge.

This case arises out of defendant Mansfield Metropolitan Housing Authority’s administration of the Section Eight 1 existing housing program. The district court found that defendants had violated plaintiffs’ Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process rights by denying eligibility to certain applicants and terminating certain participants in the program without a hearing. It awarded injunctive relief and damages. On appeal, defendants challenge both the correctness of the court’s factual findings and the relief awarded. We believe that the court’s factual findings were…