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IN RE RICHARDSON

Nos. 85-1617, 85-1618 and 85-1968.

793 F.2d 37 (1986)

In re Andrew S. RICHARDSON, Appellant. In re John M. RONEY, Appellant. In re John M. RONEY, Andrew S. Richardson, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 11, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Mann, Providence, R.I., on brief, for appellants.

Joseph J. Roszkowski, Woonsocket, R.I., Vincent D. Morgera, Lauren E. Jones, Martin W. Aisenberg, and Jones & Aisenberg, Providence, R.I., on brief, for Rhode Island Bar Ass'n and Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Ass'n, amici curiae.

John P. Barylick, Vincent T. Cannon, Peter J. Cerilli, William A. Curran, Leonard Decof, Mark B. Decof, Mercedes G. Deines, John F. Dolan, John S. Foley, E. Paul Grimm, Kirk Hanson, Joseph Kelly, R. Daniel Prentiss, David P. Whitman, and Max Wistow, Providence, R.I., on brief, pro se, as amici curiae.

Before COFFIN, BOWNES and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Appellants, two attorneys, appeal from $200 sanctions imposed on them when they did not appear for a scheduled hearing.

We review the background. Four persons, desiring federally subsidized housing, brought an action contending that due process requires that housing applicants be afforded notice of and an opportunity to challenge adverse credit reports before they are denied housing on the basis of the reports. The plaintiffs apparently all were...

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