UNITED STATES v. YONKERS BD. OF EDUC.

No. 150, Docket 86-6126.

801 F.2d 593 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and Yonkers Branch-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees, v. YONKERS BOARD OF EDUCATION, City of Yonkers, and Yonkers Community Development Agency, Defendants, and Joseph Galvin, Alfred T. Lamberti, Paul Weintraub, Frank Furgiuele, Joseph M.A. Furgiuele, Jerald Katzenelson and Salvatore Ferdico and the Crestwood Civic Association, Inc., Appellants. CITY OF YONKERS and Yonkers Community Development Agency, Third-Party-Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Third-Party-Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Sussman, Yonkers, N.Y. (Sussman & Sussman, Yonkers, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs-intervenors-appellees Yonkers Branch-NAACP, et al.

M. William Munno, Esq., New York City (James F.X. Hiler, Ronald Nimkoff, Heidi B. Goldstein, Seward & Kissel, New York City, of counsel), for appellants.

Michael W. Sculnick, New York City (Vedder, Price, Kaufman, Kammholz & Day, New York City, of counsel), for amicus curiae City of Yonkers.

Before MANSFIELD, PIERCE and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


PIERCE, Circuit Judge:

This massive litigation centers upon the alleged racial segregation of schools and racially discriminatory development of subsidized multi-family public housing in the City of Yonkers ("City") in New York. The action was commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by the United States Department of Justice in 1980. The Yonkers Branch-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ("NAACP")...

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