GAUTREAUX v. ROMNEY

Nos. 71-1732 to 71-1734 and 71-1807.

457 F.2d 124 (1972)

Dorothy GAUTREAUX et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. George W. ROMNEY, Defendant-Appellant, and The City of Chicago, Central Advisory Council, and Chicago Housing Authority, Intervenor-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 26, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., James R. Thompson, U.S. Atty., Alan S. Rosenthal, Anthony J. Steinmeyer, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant.

Richard L. Curry, Corp. Counsel, Earl L. Neal, Asst. Corp. Counsel, William R. Quinlan, Daniel R. Pascale, Chicago, Ill., for intervenor-appellant City of Chicago.

H. Ernest Lafontant, Chicago, Ill., for intervenor-appellant Central Advisory Council.

Kathryn M. Kula, Patrick W. O'Brien, Watson B. Tucker, Chicago, Ill., for intervenor-appellant Chicago Housing Authority; Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Bernard Weisberg, Alexander Polikoff, Milton I. Shadur, Cecil C. Butler, Charles R. Markels, Merrill A. Freed, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Barbara H. Sidler, Chicago, Ill., for League of Women Voters of the U.S., League of Women Voters of Ill., League of Women Voters of Cook County and League of Women Voters of Chicago, amici curiae.

Before SWYGERT, Chief Judge, DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge and SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.


DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is the third round before us of a bitterly contested controversy. Two suits were commenced in 1966. Our first opinion, by a divided court, appears in Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority, et al., 436 F.2d 306 (7 Cir., 1970). We there held it was not an abuse of discretion for the District Court to impose dead lines and to order the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) to use its best efforts to increase...

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