Legal Opinion
Daniel E. Mann, Elizabeth Cannon and Lillian Rauh v. Samuel R. Pierce, Jr. And U.S. Dept. Of Housing & Urban Development
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 13, 1986No. 85-3810PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
This interlocutory appeal requires us to determine whether the tenants of a housing project owned by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) may sue their Federal landlord for breaching the warranty of habitability in their leases. We conclude that they may bring their claims in district court. 1
I. BACKGROUND
The plaintiffs are tenants of the Mandalay Shores Apartments (the project). HUD owned and operated the project from 1977 to 1982. The tenants’ two state law claims against HUD are: (1) a breach of Florida landlord-tenant law and (2) a…
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