Federal Courts - Civil Rights - Housing - Supreme Court Holds Interdistrict Relief Appropriate to Correct Segregated Housing Practices
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Authors
Yard, Mary Julianne
Issue Date
1977
Volume
10
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|This article explores the background and implication of the Court's recent opinion in Hills v. Gautreaux in which the Supreme Court permitted interdistrict relief against a public housing authority's segregative practices. Such a result, at first glance, may appear to contradict the Court's earlier holding which disallowed such relief in the school desegregation context. However, as this article hopes to point out, the factors inhibiting the Court's willingness to expand federal courts' remedial powers in the school desegregation area have less influence in the housing context.|In 1966, Dorothy Gautreaux, and five other Negro tenants in and applicants for public housing in Chicago initiated separate suits against the Chicago Housing Authority [CHA] and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]. Plaintiffs sought relief under Section 601 of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. Section 2000d, and alleged that CHA, in its site selection policy, had denied them their rights as guaranteed and protected by the fourteenth amendment and 42 U.S.C. Section 1981 and 1983. In their complaint, plaintiffs alleged that since 1950, CHA had deliberately selected sites for public housing in neighbor...
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10 Creighton L. Rev. 378 (1976-1977)
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Creighton University School of Law