BETSEY v. TURTLE CREEK ASSOCIATES

No. 82-1051.

736 F.2d 983 (1984)

Charles and Dianne BETSEY, Carroll M. Adams, Richard and Jean Allen, William L. Allen, William F. Armstrong, Gerald and Kathryn Blunt, Malcolm Bondy, Richard Chmielewski, Nzundu Dissasi, Annette Drew, James and Eunice Eubanks, Theodore and Marlene Harvey, Nigel and Sara Haynes, B.J. Hudson, Doris Johnson, Thelma Johnson, Joyce Knight, D. Leslie McDonald, Wade McKinney, III, T.A. McWilliams, Jacques and Eleanor Opal, Carl and Linda Patterson, Gloria S. Proctor, Charles and Charlynn Pyne, Sherril Ross, Lois Seigel, Rufus and Sarah Settles, Kalyandrug Sivaram, Patricial A. Sullivan, James and Tanya Winfrey, and Metropolitan Washington Planning and Housing Association, Inc., Appellants, v. TURTLE CREEK ASSOCIATES, Krupp Associates, Douglas Krupp, George Krupp and Gerald S. Bartfield, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 18, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kerry Alan Scanlon, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C. (William H. Jeffress, Jr., Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellants.

Robert B. Barnhouse, Baltimore, Md. (Deborah T. Garren, Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellees.

Teresa Demchak, James Morales, National Center for Youth Law, San Francisco, Cal., Carol R. Golubock, Children's Defense Fund, Bruce S. Gelber, Stacy Canan, Washington, D.C., National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing for amici curiae.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

Turtle Creek Associates, et al., the partnerships and partners who own and manage a three-building, high-rise apartment complex in Silver Spring, Maryland, known as The Point, issued eviction notices to many of the tenants of Building Three, allegedly to institute an all-adult rental policy. Plaintiffs, tenants of Building Three, most of whom are black and most of whom have children residing with them, and a non-profit corporation...

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