NORTH CITY AREA-WIDE COUNCIL, INC., Benjamin James, Glendola Mills, Lewis T. Berry, William Manson, Euliel B. Hackett, Japhers Parks, Rosetta B. Jefferies and Nathaniel King, Appellants,
v.
George W. ROMNEY, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, James H. J. Tate, Mayor, Goldie E. Watson, Model Cities Administrator and City of Philadelphia.
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Argued June 15, 1970.
Decided July 14, 1970.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William S. Rawls, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, Pa. (Edwin D. Wolf, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Philadelphia, Pa., J. Anthony Kline, National Housing Law Project, Earl Warren Legal Institute, University of Cal., Berkeley, Cal., Matthew M. Strickler, Levan Gordon, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellants.
Judith S. Seplowitz, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., argued for Federal appellees (William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Louis C. Bechtle, U. S. Atty., Alan S. Rosenthal, William D. Appler, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief).
Matthew W. Bullock, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., argued for municipal appellees (Edward G. Bauer, Jr., City Solicitor, Philadelphia, Pa.), on the brief.
Peter Hearn, Philadelphia, Pa., argued for amicus curiae-Housing Assoc. of Delaware Valley. (Marilyn Mauskopf, Philadelphia, Pa., Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa. on the brief).
Before McLAUGHLIN, STALEY and ADAMS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
OPINION OF THE COURT
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
The primary issue in this case is the meaning of the requirements in the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966,1 that to be eligible for Federal aid, a "comprehensive city demonstration program," must "provide * * * widespread citizen participation in the program" and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development must "emphasize local initiative in the planning...
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