Legal Opinion
Dorothy Gautreaux v. The Chicago Housing Authority
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 8, 1971No. 18681_1PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge.
This suit was commenced in 1966. All of the plaintiffs are Negroes and are either tenants or applicants for public housing. They challenged upon behalf of themselves and the members of their class, the constitutional validity of the site selection policy of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA).
Plaintiffs’ complaint contained four counts. Count I alleged that defendants intentionally chose sites for family public housing and adopted tenant assignment procedures in violation of Title 42, §§ 1983 and 1985 for the purpose of maintaining existing patterns of residential…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1949
- McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 CahokiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Griffin v. School Bd. of Prince Edward Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1964
- James Holmes v. New York City Housing AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1968
- Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing AuthorityDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1969
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3Cited by64 opinions
- Cannon v. University of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- United Farmworkers of Florida Housing Project, Inc. v. The City of Delray Beach, Florida, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Wyatt v. AderholtCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Dorothy Gautreaux v. George W. Romney, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1971
- Abdon Acevedo v. Nassau County, New York, Its Officials, Employees and AgentsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
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