MTR. SUMPTER v. WHITE PLAINS HOUS.


29 N.Y.2d 420 (1972)

In the Matter of Willie Sumpter, Appellant, v. White Plains Housing Authority, Respondent, and Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General of the State of New York, Intervenor-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided January 13, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin A. Schwartz and Andrew L. Levy for appellant.

Alonzo J. Drummond for respondent.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Maria L. Marcus and Samuel A. Hirshowitz of counsel), for intervenor-respondent.

Otto M. Bonaparte, Harold Weintraub and Jeanne Hollingsworth for New York City Housing Authority, amicus curiae.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL and JASEN concur.


GIBSON, J.

Petitioner, an applicant for housing in respondent Authority's apartments, challenges the determination which rejected his application without specification of any ground other than that he had been found "not eligible for admission as a tenant". The statute, however, provides that in such case the Authority shall file in its office a written record stating the reasons for ineligibility and shall advise...

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