TRAFFICANTE v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 71-1325.

446 F.2d 1158 (1971)

Paul J. TRAFFICANTE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George H. Clyde, Jr., Stephen V. Bomse (argued), Margaret D. Brown, San Francisco, Cal., for appellants.

Richard J. Kilmartin (argued), of Knight, Boland & Riordan, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

Robert M. Shea (argued), Edward R. Steefel, Kate Clair Freeland, of Dinkelspiel, Steelfel, Levitt, Weiss & Donovan, for appellee Parkmerced Corporation.

James L. Browning, Jr., U. S. Atty., David L. Norman, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Frank E. Schwelb, Elliott D. McCarty, and Robert J. Wiggers, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, amicus curiae for the United States.

William Bennett Turner and Oscar Williams, San Francisco, Cal., and Jack Greenberg and James M. Nabrit, III, New York City, amicus curiae for NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Before CHAMBERS and CARTER, Circuit Judges, and JAMESON, District Judge.


JAMESON, District Judge:

This is an appeal from an order dismissing an action under Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq.) and 42 U.S.C. § 1982 by tenants of a large apartment complex challenging allegedly racially discriminatory practices of their landlord.

On August 18, 1970 plaintiffs-appellants, Paul J. Trafficante, a Caucasian, and Dorothy M. Carr, a Negro, filed a complaint alleging that defendant-appellee, Metropolitan...

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