BRUMIT v. CITY OF GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS

No. 22-2828.

72 F.4th 735 (2023)

Deborah BRUMIT and Andrew Simpson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 16, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel B. Gedge , Caroline Grace Brothers , Robert McNamara , Attorneys, Institute for Justice, Arlington, VA, Bart C. Sullivan , Attorney, Fox Smith, LLC, St. Louis, MO, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Erin M. Phillips , Attorney, Unsell, Schattnik & Phillips PC, Wood River, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Daniel P. Muino , Attorney, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Kathryn Ramsey.

John J. Clarke, Jr. , Attorney, DLA Piper LLP, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Illinois State Conference of the NAACP, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, National Housing Law Project, American Civil Liberties Union, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU School of Law.

Before Easterbrook, Rovner, and Lee, Circuit Judges.


After the Supreme Court held in HUD v. Rucker, 535 U.S. 125, 122 S.Ct. 1230, 152 L.Ed.2d 258 (2002), that a public housing authority may enforce a term in a tenant's lease allowing eviction if a member of the household or guest commits a crime (even without the tenant's knowledge...

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