Thompson v. Department of Housing & Urban Development

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GRIMM, United States Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiffs are class representatives of African American residents of Baltimore’s public housing developments. They filed suit in January, 1995 against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and its’ secretary (the “federal defendants”) and the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (“HABC”), its executive director and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (the “local defendants”). The class action lawsuit alleged that the defendants and their predecessors, from 1933 through the present, established and perpetuated de jure…