Max R. Kargman v. Thomas A. Sullivan, Bertram A. Druker v. City of Boston

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

The major legal problem in this case is to try to fit the fact that owners of four federally subsidized low and middle income housing projects in Boston have to satisfy both federal and municipal authorities as to the reasonableness of their rents within the doctrinal pronouncements of the Supreme Court in Supremacy Clause decisions. This requires us to review the record as to the impact on plaintiffs of the procedures and decisions of the Boston Rent Board in reviewing requests for rental increases and to determine whether the district court’s conclusion that “an…