PHELPS v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF WOODRUFF

No. 83-1873.

742 F.2d 816 (1984)

Rosa Lee PHELPS; Lewis A. McAbee; Branda Switzer; Carolyn Poole; Mary Ann Gory; Joyce Wooford; Emma Young and Sandra New, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Appellants, v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF WOODRUFF and L.G. Casey, individually and in his official capacity as Director of the Housing Authority of Woodruff, and their officers, subordinates and successors, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 24, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold F. Daniels, Piedmont Legal Services, Inc., Spartanburg, S.C., for appellants.

William E. Walsh, T.E. Walsh, Spartanburg, S.C., (Gaines & Walsh, Spartanburg, S.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before WIDENER, HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

In this action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiffs appeal from judgment entered for the defendants after a trial to the court. We affirm.

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This suit challenges the legality of defendants' policies regarding admission of new tenants to Kelly Acres, a 100-unit public housing project located in Woodruff, South Carolina, and their methods of processing applications for tenancy at Kelly Acres.

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