United States Second Circuit

Department of Housing and Urban Development does not have a duty to monitor local housing authorities' compliance with the responsibilities imposed on those authorities by the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/31/2001
• Decided 04/30/2001
• Published 04/30/2001

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge:, Before STRAUB, POOLER, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter A. Kelly, New Haven, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Eric P. Smith, Lynch, Traub, Keefe, and Errante, P.C. (Donn A. Swift, of counsel), New Haven, CT, for Defendant-Appellee Housing Authority of the City of New Haven., John W. Mills, Murphy and Karpie, LLC, Bridgeport, CT, for Defendant-Appellee John Yost., Keith R. Ainsworth, Evans, Feldman & Boyer, LLC, New Haven, CT, for Defendant-Appellee John Diduca., William A. Collier, Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Hartford, CT (Stephen C. Robinson, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut and Robert H. Farrell, Office of the Regional Counsel, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, of counsel), for Consolidated Defendant-Appellee United States of America.