HUNT v. ROBESON COUNTY DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES

No. 86-3517.

816 F.2d 150 (1987)

Eula Mae HUNT, Laverne Washington, Helen Bartley, Carrie Mae Oxendine, Lula Deese Locklear, Ada Lee Jones Hayes, Deborah Lynn Stephens; Daniel Locklear; Marshall Randall Deese and Helen Oxendine, Appellants, and Lucratie Locklear; Euna Mae Oxendine and Ernestine Graham, Plaintiffs, v. ROBESON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES; Russell Sessons, individually and in his official capacity as Director of Robeson County Department of Social Services; William Herndon, Lee Helen Thompson, Harold Smith, Zeb Oxendine, and George Ziegler, individually and in their official capacity as members of the Board of Directors of the Robeson County Department of Social Services; and Howard Davis and Peggy Chavis Wilkerson, in their official capacity as newly appointed members of the Board of Directors of the Robeson County Department of Social Services, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Davis, III, Fuquay-Varina, N.C. (Julian T. Pierce, Lumbee River Legal Services, Inc., on brief), for appellants.

W.R. Loftis, Jr. (Penni Pearson Bradshaw, Petree Stockton & Robinson, Winston-Salem, N.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before WIDENER and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


WILLIAMS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal the grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants in this civil action implicating the defendants' administration of the North Carolina Crisis Intervention Program, which is part of the State's Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program created pursuant to the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 ("LIHEA" or "the Act"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 8621-8629. Plaintiffs allege that the district court erroneously concluded...

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