HUERTAS v. EAST RIVER HOUSING CORP.

No. 77 Civ. 4494 (RLC).

674 F.Supp. 440 (1987)

Julio HUERTAS, Carmen Melendez, Francisco Garcia, Rosaria Esperon, Raphael Negron, Angelo Vasquez, Maria Sanchez, Joyce Johnson, and Betty Johnson, individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, and the Lower East Side Joint Planning Council On Housing and It's Time, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. EAST RIVER HOUSING CORP., Seward Park Housing Corp., Hillman Housing Corp., Amalgamated Dwellings, Inc., Ralph Lippman, as President and a member of the board of directors of East River Housing Corp., President of Hillman Housing Corp., and President of Amalgamated Dwellings, Inc., and Harold Ostroff, as President and a member of the board of directors of Seward Park Housing Corp., Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

July 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Kimerling, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Inc., New York City, for plaintiffs.

Szold & Brandwen, P.C., New York City, for defendants; Alan G. Blumberg, of counsel.


OPINION

ROBERT L. CARTER, District Judge.

This ten-year-old case must be decided, an eventuality I had hoped and sought to avoid. My studied effort to forestall a court-mandated resolution of this controversy did not result from any anticipated difficulties in reaching a proper and just determination. The case, tried to the court February 9-19, 1981, conclusively established a pattern and practice of intentional racial discrimination by defendants in allocating...

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