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N.A.A.C.P., BOSTON CHAPTER v. HARRIS

Nos. 79-1051, 79-1114.

607 F.2d 514 (1979)

N. A. A. C. P., BOSTON CHAPTER, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Patricia HARRIS et al., Defendants, Appellees. v. Patricia HARRIS, etc., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Jay Rom, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs, appellants in both cases.

Thomas I. Atkins, Boston, Mass., with whom Atkins & Brown, Edward J. Barshak, Boston, Mass., Natasha C. Lisman, Katherine S. McHugh, Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, Boston, Mass., Judith S. Bernstein, Chicago, Ill., and Mark S. Brodin, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants in No. 79-1051.

Roger Mervis, Karen Kruskal, Chelsea, Mass., Frank Smizik, Pittsburgh, Pa., Richard Allen, Daniel B. Bickford, Stuart T. Rossman, and Gaston, Snow & Ely Bartlett, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants in No. 79-1114.

Richard D. Glovsky, Asst. U.S. Atty., Chief, Civ. Div., Boston, Mass., with whom Edward F. Harrington, U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges, and DEVINE, District Judge.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs brought these two civil rights actions against officials of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) challenging the disbursement of federal funds to the cities of Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts, and seeking conditions to assure that any funds provided be used in a non-discriminatory manner. Plaintiffs maintain that HUD's actions with respect to the cities' requests for money under the Community Development...

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