Legal Opinion
Comer v. Cisneros
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 26, 1994No. Nos. 1236, 1237 and 1238, Dockets 93-6207, 93-6253 and 93-6333PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs, low-income minority individuals, brought this class action on behalf of all former, current, and future minority residents of Buffalo, New York public housing projects and applicants for federal housing assistance in Erie County, New York. The original complaint alleged racial discrimination and segregation in public housing and assistance programs. The district court dismissed the complaint for lack of standing. The court also dismissed as moot the claims brought by all eleven proposed plaintiffs-intervenors.
In light of the procedural posture of…
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