PROJECT B.A.S.I.C., Plaintiff, Appellee,
v.
Stephen J. O'ROURKE, et al., Defendants, Appellants.
PROJECT B.A.S.I.C., Plaintiff, Appellee,
v.
Jack KEMP, et al., Defendants, Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Heard May 9, 1990.
Decided July 6, 1990.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Stephen J. Reid, with whom Karen A. Pelczarski and Blish & Cavanagh, were on brief for Stephen J. O'Rourke and The Housing Authority of the City of Providence.
John P. Schnitker, with whom Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lincoln C. Almond, U.S. Atty., and Michael Jay Singer, Atty., Appellate Staff, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Gershon M. Ratner, Associate Gen. Counsel for Litigation, Howard M. Schmeltzer, Asst. Gen. Counsel for Litigation, and Joseph W. Lobue, Trial Atty., U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, were on brief for federal appellants.
Deval L. Patrick, with whom Timothy J. Dacey, Stephanie S. Lovell, Gail A. Goolkasian, Hill & Barlow, Steven Fischback, Rhode Island Legal Services, Barbara R. Arnwine and Paul Holtzman, Lawyers Committee for Civ. Rights Under Law, and Helen Hershkoff, American Civ. Liberties Union Foundation, were on brief for Project B.A.S.I.C.
Jane M. Smith, Carleton K. Montgomery, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, Everald Thompson, NAACP Sp. Contribution Fund, Claire Gonzales, Nat. Council of La Raza, Nat. Low Income Housing Coalition, and Arthur A. Baer, Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, Inc., amici curiae.
Before BREYER, Chief Judge, and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
BREYER, Chief Judge.
In April 1989, Project B.A.S.I.C. ("BASIC"), a Rhode Island tenant-advocacy organization, asked the federal district court to issue a preliminary injunction forbidding the Providence Housing Authority (and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development) from demolishing several high-rise towers at the Hartford Park housing project in Providence. BASIC claimed that the proposed demolition violated several federal statutes, including 42...
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