SOUTHSIDE FAIR HOUSING COM. v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 1251, Docket 91-7045.

928 F.2d 1336 (1991)

SOUTHSIDE FAIR HOUSING COMMITTEE; Lucy Rodriguez; Miguel De Los Santos; Israel Rosario; Conrado Diaz; Norma Diaz Tejada; Bolivar Pascual; Carmelo Gonzalez; Franciso Peguero; Luz Baez; Diana Dawson; Blanca Rivera; Irma Montero; Charles L. Mercado; Maritza Andujar; Reyna Gonzalez; Iris Pena; Leroy Beckles; Gustavo Mueses, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Appellants, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK; New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development; and United Talmudic Academy; Torah V'Yirah Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis M. Steel, New York City (Susan Ritz, Richard F. Bellman, and Steel Bellman & Ritz, New York City, Ruben Franco, Ken Kimerling, and Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Inc., New York City, Martin S. Needelman, Foster S. Maer, Mauricio Hernandez, and Brooklyn Legal Services Corp., Brooklyn, N.Y., on the brief) for appellants.

Fay Leoussis, New York City (Victor A. Kovner, Corp. Counsel, Leonard Koerner, Thomas Bergdall and Richard Klein on the brief) for municipal appellees.

Jonathan M. Wagner, New York City (Marvin E. Frankel, Robin S. Feingold, and Kramer, Levin, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel, New York City, on the brief) for appellee United Talmudic Academy, Torah V'Yirah, Inc.

Jeremiah S. Gutten, Gail A. Wechsler, and Levy, Gutman, Goldberg & Kaplan, New York City, filed a brief for amici curiae New York Civ. Liberties Union Foundation and Americans for Religious Liberty.

Before FEINBERG, TIMBERS and MINER, Circuit Judges.


TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order entered November 2, 1990 and from an order and judgment entered November 30, 1990 in the Eastern District of New York, Eugene H. Nickerson, District Judge, 750 F.Supp. 575, denying injunctive relief to appellants and entering final judgment in favor of appellees pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b).

The individual appellants are Latino and African-American citizens...

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