CLIENTS' COUNCIL v. PIERCE

No. 82-1383.

711 F.2d 1406 (1983)

CLIENTS' COUNCIL, Debra Wyatt and Merlene McGloughlin, Appellants, v. Samuel R. PIERCE, Jr., Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Thomas Armstrong, Regional Administrator, Region Six Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Andrew Watts, Area Manager, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 28, 1983.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 15, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Larry R. McCord, U.S. Atty., Fort Smith, Ark., Anthony J. Steinmeyer, Michael Jay Singer, Attys.' Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for appellees; Gershon M. Ratner, Associate Gen. Counsel for Litigation, John W. Herold, Atty., Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Michael M. Daniel, Elizabeth K. Julian, Julian & Daniel, Dallas, Tex., Gary R. Thomas, East Texas Legal Services, Nacogdoches, Tex., for appellants.

Before HEANEY and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges, and HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 15, 1983.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Debra Wyatt and Merlene McGloughlin, black women who are eligible for admission to the Texarkana public housing program, ask this Court to reverse the district court1 and to find that the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and various other HUD officials have discriminated against black persons who reside in or are...

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