Legal Opinion
MATTER OF PETERS v. New York City Hous. Auth.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 14, 1954PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFuld, J.
Included in the Independent Offices Appropriations Act of 1953 (66 U. S. Stat. 403) was a provision which has become known as the Gwinn Amendment. It directed, in part, that
“ no housing unit constructed under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, shall be occupied by a person who is a member of an organization designated as subversive by the Attorney General: Provided further, That the foregoing prohibition shall be enforced by the local housing authority ”.
Several months after the enactment of the Amendment, respondent New York City Housing Authority, acting pursuant to…
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