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HUNTINGTON BRANCH, NAACP v. TOWN OF HUNTINGTON

No. 794, Docket 87-7892.

844 F.2d 926 (1988)

HUNTINGTON BRANCH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, Housing Help, Inc., Mabel Harris, Perrepper Crutchfield and Kenneth L. Cofield, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The TOWN OF HUNTINGTON, New York, Kenneth C. Butterfield, Clair Kroft, Kenneth Deegan, Edward Thompson and Joseph Clemente, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard F. Bellman, Steel, Bellman and Levine, P.C., New York City (Lewis M. Steel, Miriam F. Clark, New York City, Grover G. Hankins, Gen. Counsel, Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Richard C. Cahn, Cahn, Wishod, Wishod, and Lamb, Melville, N.Y. (Scott M. Karson, on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, OAKES, and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Twenty years ago, widespread racial segregation threatened to rip civil society asunder. In response, Congress adopted broad remedial provisions to promote integration. One such statute, Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601-3631 (1982 & Supp. III 1985) ("Fair Housing Act"), was enacted "to provide, within constitutional limitations, for fair housing throughout the United States." 42 U.S.C. &...

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