RIVERS v. DOAR

Case No. 06-CV-5863 (FB)(MDG).

638 F.Supp.2d 333 (2009)

Tanya RIVERS, Miguel Mercado, Larry Gaines, Robert Ruddock, Lee Lumbley, Michael Williams, Judy G., Edwin (aka "Erica") Vargas, and Victor Capo, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Robert DOAR, as Commissioner of the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Verna Eggleston, as Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration, and Elsie Del Campo, as Commissioner of the New York City HIV/AIDS Services Administration, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

July 29, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew D. Brinckerhoff, Esq., Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady PC, New York, NY, for Plaintiff.

Robert L. Kraft, Esq., William H. Bristow III, Esq., Office of the Attorney General, Martin John Bowe, Esq., New York City Law Department, New York, NY, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BLOCK, Senior District Judge.

In this case, plaintiffs, nine indigent New York City residents with HIV or AIDS living in public housing, sue to enforce the rent cap provisions found in Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. § 1437 et seq. ("Section 8"), and in the regulations promulgated under the Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS law, 42 U.S.C. § 12901 et seq. ("HOPWA")...

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