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UNITED STATES v. LONG

No. 74-1398.

537 F.2d 1151 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. J. C. LONG, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Frank J. Sottile, and the Worth Agency, a partnership, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 28, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard L. Long, Jr. (Peter DeLuca, Jr., Robert A. Patterson, Ellison D. Smith, IV, and J. C. Long, Charleston, S. C., on brief), for appellants.

Martin Barenblat, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice (J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Frank E. Schwelb, Robert N. Eccles, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, and John K. Grisso, U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before RUSSELL and FIELD, Circuit Judges, and THOMSEN, Senior District Judge.

FIELD, Circuit Judge:

The Attorney General of the United States instituted this action against the defendants pursuant to Section 813 of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (hereinafter Act)1 which authorizes him to bring a civil action to obtain "preventive relief" for violations of Title VIII, the fair housing provisions of the Act. Section 813 reads as follows:

"Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that any...

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