Legal Opinion
Otero v. New York City Housing Authority
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 12, 1973No. Nos. 1027, 1028, 1029, Dockets 78-1462, 73-1499, 73-1503PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:
Upon this appeal we encounter a type of confrontation that sometimes occurs when a housing authority’s use of low cost public housing to promote or maintain racial integration clashes with other demands or interests in the community. Usually the problem arises when an effort is made to introduce a non-white minority into a community that is populated almost entirely by white residents. See N. Y. Times Feb. 17, 1972, 1:1 re: Forest Hills Housing Project, Queens, and Nov. 21, 1972, 1:1 re: Kawaida Towers Housing Project, Newark; Crow v. Brown, 332 F.Supp. 382 (N.D.Ga.…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- J. I. Case Co. v. BorakSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Hecht Co. v. BowlesSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
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3Cited by69 opinions
- Cannon v. University of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., Northwest Opportunity Center and Eluteria D. Maldonado, Intervening v. Village of Arlington HeightsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1977
- Dorothy Weathers v. Peters Realty CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1974
- Smith v. Town of ClarktonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1982
- N.A.A.C.P., Boston Chapter v. Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
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