LATINOS UNIDOS DE CHELSEA EN ACCION (LUCHA) v. SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

No. 85-1573.

799 F.2d 774 (1986)

LATINOS UNIDOS DE CHELSEA EN ACCION (LUCHA), et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Jay Rom, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Laws of the Boston Bar Ass'n, with whom Stuart T. Rossman, Sheara F. Friend and Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett were on brief for plaintiffs, appellants.

Marshall D. Stein, Sp. Counsel to the City of Chelsea, with whom Cherwin & Glickman was on brief for City of Chelsea and Mayor of Chelsea, Mass.

Howard S. Scher, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, with whom William F. Weld, U.S. Atty., Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Michael Jay Singer, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Gershon M. Ratner, Associate Gen. Counsel for Litigation, Howard M. Schmeltzer, Sp. Asst. to the Associate Gen. Counsel for Litigation, and Anthony J. Ciccone, Jr., Trial Atty., HUD Office of Litigation, were on brief for federal defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges, and MALETZ, Senior Judge.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this civil rights action alleging that the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts, and three officials of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),1 deprived Chelsea's minority population of equal opportunities in employment, housing and government contracts made available through several federally funded programs. The plaintiffs, Latinos Unidos De Chelsea En Accion (LUCHA) and...

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