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BURTON v. TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY

No. 00-13607.

271 F.3d 1274 (2001)

Connie BURTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY, United States of America, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 7, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Daniel Goldsmith, Rebecca Steele, Trenam, Kemker, Scharf, Frye, O'Neill & Mullins, Tampa, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Howard S. Scher, Barbara C. Biddle, Dept. of Justice, Civ. App. Div., Washington, DC, Tamra Phipps, David Paul Rhodes, Tampa, FL, Alan D. Stewart, Butler, Burnette & Pappas, Tampa, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Vytas Varekokis Vergeer, National Housing Project, Washington, DC, Alice M. Vickers, Florida Legal Services, Inc., Tallahassee, FL, Catherine M. Bishop, National Housing Law Project, Oakland, CA, Mitchell Sellers Ritchie, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Jacksonville, FL, for Amicus Curiae.

Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and HULL and FAY, Circuit Judges.

FAY, Circuit Judge:

I. Introduction

The question presented by this appeal is whether or not a public housing authority may evict ignorant tenants, pursuant to a Congressional mandate, when the tenant, any member of the tenant's household, or any guest or other person under the tenant's control engages in drug-related criminal activity on or near the public housing premises. The district court answered in the affirmative. We agree and affirm.

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