BROWN v. ARTERY ORGANIZATION, INC.

Civ. A. No. 86-3285.

654 F.Supp. 1106 (1987)

Rena BROWN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ARTERY ORGANIZATION, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

February 24, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clare L. McCulla, Ann C. Suhler, Richard A. Miller, Legal Services of Northern Virginia, Alexandria, Va., Florence Wagman Roisman, Christopher W. Hornig, National Housing Law Project, David Alan Nall, Mercedes Marquez, Georgetown University Law Center, Institute for Public Representation, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

John P. Corrado, Thomas & Fiske, Washington, D.C., David G. Fiske, Anthony W. Hawks, Thomas & Fiske, Alexandria, Va., for defendants Artery Organization, Inc., Dominion Gardens Arlandria Ltd. Partnership, Henry H. Goldberg, Alan Geller, and Jack I. Luria (Artery defendants or Artery).

Richard O. Duvall, Robert P. Trout, Steven D. Gordon, Valerie Ann Lee, Dunnells, Duvall, Bennett & Porter, Washington, D.C., for defendants Conrad Cafritz, Jr., John K. Freeman, TIG-RFA, Inc., Potomac Village Ltd. Partnership, and Potomac Real Estate Group, Inc. (Cafritz defendants or Cafritz).

John P. Hume, Kenneth P. Troccoli, Krooth & Altman, Washington, D.C., for defendants ABG Financial Services, Inc., and Patrician Mortg. Co.

Robert E.L. Eaton, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., for Federal defendants; Patricia Sharin Flagg, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., of counsel.


OPINION

HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.

The Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 3601 et seq.) prohibits discrimination with respect to housing, inter alia, on the basis of race or national origin. The most basic substantive issue involved in this case — one of first impression in this Circuit — is whether under the Act the overwhelmingly black and Hispanic tenants of a low-rent apartment complex have the right to secure...

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