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GAUTREAUX v. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY

Nos. 74-1048, 74-1049.

503 F.2d 930 (1974)

Dorothy GAUTREAUX et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY and James T. Lynn, Successor to George W. Romney, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 26, 1974.

Rehearing Denied September 30, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander Polikoff, Milton I. Shadur, Patrick W. O'Brien and Watson B. Tucker, Chicago, Ill., for Chicago Housing.

Carla A. Hills, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anthony J. Steinmeyer, Atty. Dept. of Justice, Washington D.C., James R. Thompson, U.S. Atty., Gary L. Starkman, Asst. U.S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for Dorothy Gautreaux.

Before CLARK, Associate Justice, and CUMMINGS and TONE, Circuit Judges.

Mr. Justice CLARK:

Appellants, black tenants in and applicants for public housing, brought these consolidated cases separately in 1966 against the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) respectively, charging that CHA had intentionally violated 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and § 1982 in maintaining existing patterns of residential separation of races by its tenant assignment and site selection procedures, contrary to...

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