BOYD v. LEFRAK ORGANIZATION

No. 201, Docket 74-1660.

509 F.2d 1110 (1975)

Dorothy BOYD, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Inez Stoney, Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The LEFRAK ORGANIZATION and Life Realty, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 22, 1975.

Rehearing Denied April 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ruth Balen, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Edward R. Dudley, Jr., Harlem Assertion of Rights, Inc., New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee and intervenor-plaintiff-appellee.

Edward Brodsky, New York City (Goldstein, Shames & Hyde, New York City, on the brief, Stephen Hochberg and Edwin L. Schwartz, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Before HAYS, ANDERSON and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing En Banc Denied April 17, 1975.

HAYS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs commenced this action seeking injunctive and declaratory relief on the ground that the use by The Lefrak Organization ("Lefrak") and Life Realty, Inc. ("rental office") of certain financial criteria to determine eligibility for tenancy in their apartments violated the Civil Rights Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq. (1970) ("Fair Housing Act") and the Civil Rights Act of 1866,...

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