BURNEY v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF CTY. OF BEAVER

Civ. A. Nos. 78-1137, 79-999.

551 F.Supp. 746 (1982)

Theresa BURNEY, Sileatha Ferguson, Brenda Jackson, Rose Ann Johnson, and Stacey Glover, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, and Arlene Goosby, Gia Flannigan, Joann Powell and Leila Smith, Plaintiffs, v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF the COUNTY OF BEAVER, James F. Tress, individually and in his capacity as Executive Director of the Housing Authority of the County of Beaver, John F. Phillips, individually and as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Housing Authority of the County of Beaver, Their Agents, Successors in Office, and Persons acting under their direction, and Homer C. Floyd, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

August 20, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy O'Brien, Neighborhood Legal Services, Pittsburgh, Pa., John W. Dineen, Neighborhood Legal Services, Aliquippa, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Ellen Doyle, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, Pittsburgh, Pa., Clarence D. Neish, Aliquippa, Pa., for defendants.


OPINION

COHILL, District Judge.

Robert Burns' oft-quoted maxim "the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley" perhaps best describes the attempts of the defendants, the Housing Authority of the County of Beaver ("Housing Authority") and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission ("Commission") to design a plan to achieve and maintain integration in the Housing Authority's low-income, public housing projects. On October 6, 1978, the plaintiffs herein...

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