COLES v. HAVENS RLTY. CORP.

No. 79-1199.

633 F.2d 384 (1980)

Paul Allen COLES, Plaintiff, and Sylvia Coleman, R. Kent Willis, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, and Housing Opportunities Made Equal, a Virginia Corporation, Appellants, v. HAVENS REALTY CORPORATION, a Virginia Corporation, and Rose Jones, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 18, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vanessa Ruiz, Washington, D. C. (Daniel M. Singer, Theodore C. Hirt, Dennis J. Riley, Josephine L. Ursini, Raymond E. Mabus, Jr., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman, Washington, D. C., James F. Stutts, McSweeney & Stutts, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Richard W. Hogan, Richmond, Va. (Linda L. Royster, Hirschler, Fleischer, Weinberg, Cox & Allen, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and HALL and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.


SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a final judgment of the district court granting defendants' motion to dismiss an action involving allegations of "racial steering" and racial discrimination in the rental of housing accommodations in the City of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia. "Racial steering" is a practice by which real estate brokers and agents preserve and encourage patterns of racial segregation by steering members of racial and ethnic groups...

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