EDWARDS v. JOHNSTON COUNTY HEALTH DEPT.

No. 88-3171.

885 F.2d 1215 (1989)

Willie B. EDWARDS, Jr., Queen Hayes, James Hayes, and Earl Jaspar Forney, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and James Garrett and James Dubose, Plaintiffs, v. JOHNSTON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT; W. Leon Powell, Jr.; Roy H. Warren; Richard H. Clayton, III; Stacy Covill; Ronald H. Levine, in his official capacity as State Health Director of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources; Helen Ray; Johnston County, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 20, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Willis, Raleigh, N.C. (Farm-workers Legal Services of North Carolina) for plaintiffs-appellants.

Sueanna P. Peeler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C. (Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen., Pittsboro, N.C., William R. Britt, Smithfield, N.C., and Gordon C. Woodruff, Harron, O'Hale, Whittington & Woodruff, Benson, N.C., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, HADEN, Chief United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation, and ELLIS, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


ELLIS, District Judge:

Six black migrant farmworkers1 appeal the dismissal of their claims against various county and state officials.2 They contended below that appellees' practice of issuing permits for the establishment of substandard migrant housing facilities3 violated the Fair Housing Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601-3619...

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