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HAYDEN v. OAK TERRACE APARTMENTS

No. 86-1767.

808 F.2d 1269 (1987)

Donna HAYDEN, Jacqueline Perry and South Suburban Housing Center, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. OAK TERRACE APARTMENTS and Oak Maintenance Association and Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Roscrow, Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. OAK TERRACE APARTMENTS and Oak Maintenance Association and Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Roscrow, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 7, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Reilly, Patrick J. Reilly & Assoc., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Jeffrey L. Taren, Kinoy, Taren, Geraghty & Potter, Chicago, Ill., Miriam Eisenstein, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Defendants-appellants argue that the district court's decision to credit the testimony of a witness they term a "pathological liar," rather than their own testimony, was clearly erroneous, and that the judgment of civil contempt imposed on them must therefore be reversed. We affirm the judgment of the district court.

I.

This is a fair housing case. Since 1978, defendants-appellants Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Roscrow ("the Roscrows...

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