Legal Opinion
Ruffin v. Housing Authority of New Orleans
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided June 20, 1969No. Civ. A. 68-841PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUBIN, District Judge:
This class action involves the rights of tenants in public housing to procedural due process of law in their relationship with the Housing Authority of New Orleans. Plaintiff, Geraldine Ruffin, a public housing tenant threatened with eviction, seeks a declaration that various procedural safeguards must be employed by the defendant before she may be evicted from her apartment.
The extent to which the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments import requirements of substantive principles of justice has been strenuously debated. 1 But, at the least, these amendments have been…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroySupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrathSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Greene v. McElroySupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NMSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Thorpe v. Housing Authority of DurhamSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Escalera v. New York City Housing AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1970
- Thompson v. WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
- Baker-Chaput v. CammettDistrict Court, D. New Hampshire · 1976
- Fuller v. UrstadtNew York Court of Appeals · 1971
- Williams v. White Plains Housing AuthorityNew York Supreme Court · 1970
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