GORDON v. CITY OF CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA

Civ. A. No. C81-65R.

522 F.Supp. 753 (1981)

Howard GORDON and T. W. Duncan, d/b/a Cartersville Manor Apartments, Ltd., a Limited Partnership, G. W. Myrick, and Ruby A. Wilson, Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, a Municipal Corporation, John W. Dent, Individually and as mayor of the City of Cartersville, Walter Mahone, Individually and as City Manager of the City of Cartersville, Clarence Benham, R. Gary Bradley, Edsel W. Dean, Marvin W. Mitchell, Individually and as Members of the City Council of the City of Cartersville, John Davis, William Womack, Robert Dabbs, and Peter Alday, Individually and as Members of the Cartersville Board of Zoning Appeals, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Georgia, Rome Division.

September 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burt DeRieux, Eileen Crowley, Teresa Dennon, Greene, Buckley, DeRieux & Jones, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

David Archer, Archer & Elsey, Cartersville, Ga., for defendants.


ORDER

HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.

This civil action was brought by a partnership which sought to construct and operate low-income racially integrated housing in Bartow County along with two1 individual residents of the County, against the City of Cartersville, the mayor, city council members, city manager, and the members of the Board of Zoning Appeals, all of whom thwarted the partnership's plans by denying necessary building...

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