ATKINS v. ROBINSON

Civ. A. No. 81-0778-R.

545 F.Supp. 852 (1982)

Ernestine ATKINS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. William A. ROBINSON, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

August 2, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira M. Steingold, Steingold & Glanzer, Norfolk, Va., Stephen W. Bricker, Richmond, Va., Martin E. Sloane, Jane W. Vanneman, Bruce S. Gelber, Staff Atty., National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, Inc., Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Richard K. Bennett, Browder, Russell, Morris & Butcher, Richmond, Va., Russell O. Slayton, Jr., Hammack, Slayton & Bain, Lawrenceville, for all defendants except HUD and Va. Housing Development Authority.

Carl F. Bowmer, Roseleen Rick, Richmond, Va., for Va. Housing Development Authority.

Robert W. Jaspen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Richmond, Va., David Belkowitz, Richmond, Va., Nelson Chan, Philadelphia, Pa., for HUD.


MEMORANDUM

MERHIGE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, low-income black residents of Greensville County, Virginia, bring this class action against the County, the members of the Board of Supervisors ("Board") of the County in their individual and official capacities, and the Board's tie breaker in his individual and official capacity alleging that the defendants' veto of a proposed low-income housing development to be located in the County and to participate in...

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