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RANJEL v. CITY OF LANSING

No. 19333.

417 F.2d 321 (1969)

Augustine L. RANJEL, Asencion de Leon, Jr., Virginia Arriaga Williams, Macedonia Ayala, Betty Basey, Ira Q. Miller, Antonio M. Lira, Geraldine Hicks and Ruby Mack, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF LANSING, Gerald W. Graves, Mayor, and Theo Fulton, Clerk, City of Lansing, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

October 28, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Mayer, Detroit, Mich., for appellants; Oskar M. Hornbach, City Atty., Lansing, Mich., Norman C. Farhat, Special Asst. City Atty., Farhat, Burns & Luoma, Lansing, Mich., on brief; Mayer & Mayer, Detroit, Mich., of counsel.

Michael Davidson, New York City, for appellees; Jack Greenberg, New York City, Paul Rosen, William Goodman, Detroit, Mich., on brief.

Jerold Lax, Avern Cohn, Detroit, Mich., on brief as amicus curiae of the American Jewish Committee.

Robert R. Soltis, Cleveland, Ohio, on brief as amicus curiae for the American Independent Party of Ohio.

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen., William F. Bledsoe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Detroit, Mich., on brief as amicus curiae for Michigan Civil Rights Commission.

Before WEICK and PECK, Circuit Judges, and MACHROWICZ, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

The suit was brought in the District Court by poor black and Mexican-Americans to enjoin a referendum on a "spot" zoning ordinance enacted by the Council of the City of Lansing, which ordinance rezoned a twenty-acre site at Jolly and Cedar Streets in a white neighborhood in said City, from a zoning classification of "A" One Family Residential district to a community unit plan which would consist of one hundred low rent town-house units and a low rent five...

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