Williamson v. Hampton Management Company

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

TONE, District Judge.

This action under the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 1982) raises the issue of whether defendants refused to lease or consent to the sublease of an apartment to two of the plaintiffs because of race. After commencement of the hearing on plaintiffs’ application for a preliminary-injunction, that hearing and the trial on the merits were consolidated pursuant to Rule 65(a) (2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Plaintiff Bonita Nichols, who is white, was the lessee of the subject apartment from defendant Hampton Management Company under a lease that…