GAUTREAUX v. CITY OF CHICAGO

Nos. 72-1409, 72-1410, 72-1485 and 72-1486.

480 F.2d 210 (1973)

Dorothy GAUTREAUX et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF CHICAGO and Richard J. Daley, Defendants-Appellants, v. Fred B. ROTI et al., Members of the City Council of the City of Chicago, Defendants-Appellants, v. Edward R. VRDOLYAK, Defendant-Appellant, v. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 18, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick W. O'Brien, Edward T. Joyce, Richard L. Curry, Corp. Counsel, William R. Quinlan, James R. Thompson, U. S. Atty., William T. Huyck, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Alexander Polikoff, Alex Elson, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before SWYGERT, Chief Judge, and PELL and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges.


SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

This chapter in a long unfinished story deals with the power and propriety of the district court's implementation of prior judgments which were designed to alleviate racial discrimination in site selection and tenant assignment procedures in public housing, by restructuring the local decision-making process in order to bypass a discriminatory bottleneck in that process.

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