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SHANNON v. UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HOUSING & URBAN DEV.

No. 18397.

436 F.2d 809 (1970)

Maurice SHANNON et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, George Romney, Secretary of Department of Housing and Urban Development, Warren P. Phelan, Regional Administrator, Region II, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Thomas J. Gallagher, Regional Administrator, Federal Housing Administration, Department of Housing and Urban Development.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin D. Wolf, Lawyers Comm. on Civil Rights, Philadelphia, Pa. (Michael Churchill, Robert B. Wolf, A. Stephens Clay, IV, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellants.

Michael C. Farrar, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Louis C. Bechtle, U. S. Atty., Alan S. Rosenthal, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellees.

Before HASTIE, Chief Judge, and STALEY and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-Appellants in this action are white and black residents (some homeowners and some tenants), businessmen in, and representatives of private civic organizations in the East Poplar Urban Renewal Area of Philadelphia. They sue in their own right, and as class representatives of others similarly situated pursuant to Rules 23 and 17(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The individual defendants are...

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