Legal Opinion
Miles v. Metropolitan Dade County
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 9, 1990No. Nos. 89-5418, 89-5717PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge:
Edith Miles brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against Metropolitan Dade County alleging that the County’s actions in charging public housing tenants court costs charges regardless of the outcome of eviction proceedings violate the Constitution and the Brooke Amendment to the United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. § 1437a.1 The district court granted Miles’s motion to certify the case as a class action brought by all past, present and future tenants who had been charged court costs despite the fact that eviction proceedings brought against them were dismissed or…
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- Escalera v. New York City Housing AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1970
- Coye Peterson v. The Oklahoma City Housing Authority, a Public Corporation and State AgencyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1976
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