Legal Opinion
Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 7, 1972No. 71-708PublishedCited by 889 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
Two tenants of Parkmerced, an apartment complex in San Francisco housing about 8,200 residents, filed separate complaints with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) pursuant to § 810 (a)1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1968,82 Stat. 85,42 U. S. C. § 3610 (a). One tenant is black, one white. Each alleged that the owner 2 *207of Parkmerced had discriminated against nonwhites on the basis of race in the rental of apartments within the complex in violation of § 804 of the Act.
HUD, pursuant to §810(c) of the Act,3 notified the appropriate California state agency of the complaints and the…
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