Legal Opinion
Escalera v. New York City Housing Authority
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 29, 1970No. Nos. 441-444, Dockets 33226-33229PublishedCited by 209 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Appellants are tenants in New York City public housing projects. They brought four suits in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York City Housing Authority [hereinafter cited as “HA”] and certain individuals as officers of the HA, in the form of class actions on behalf of themselves and all tenants similarly situated. The complaints invoked jurisdiction under the Civil Rights Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) (1962), and alleged the deprivation of appellants’ right to due process secured by the Fourteenth Amendment to…
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