Legal Opinion
Boyd v. Browner
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 9, 1995No. Civ. A. 94-0893 (JR)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ROBERTSON, District Judge.
In 1992, some eighty African-American homeowners living on a tract of chemically contaminated land in Texarkana, Texas, sold their residences to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which was acting as agent for the Environmental Protection Agency. The homeowners also accepted government relocation assistance. The homeowners, now plaintiffs, claim in this action that the Government threatened and coerced them so that they sold their houses for too little money and accepted too little in relocation payments. They compare their treatment with that given to…
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