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RIDGELY v. FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

No. 07-30615.

512 F.3d 727 (2008)

Diane RIDGELY; Judy Sturken; David Bellinger; Tamica Dickson, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs—Appellees, v. FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY; United States Department of Homeland Security; Michael Chertoff, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security; R. David Paulison, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and their successors in office, Defendants— Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 4, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam Paul Strochak, Washington, DC, Caitlin Joan Halligan (argued), Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, Lisa Royce Eskow, Meredith Bishop Parenti, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Austin, TX, Angela Schwartz, Pub. Interest Law Project, Oakland, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Alisa Beth Klein, Mark Bernard Stern, Eric Fleisig-Greene (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before KING, BARKSDALE and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

KING, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, a class of individuals who received rental assistance payments froth the federal government after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, brought suit alleging various constitutional and statutory deficiencies in the process by which the rental assistance program is administered. In this interlocutory appeal, the Federal Emergency Management Agency challenges the district court's entry of a preliminary injunction requiring the agency to make...

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