United States Second Circuit

In public housing consent decree for desegregation of public housing, racially-neutral policies that merely slow the pace of desegregation may violate the Fair Housing Act, even if the policy has valid, non-discriminatory purposes.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/16/2000
• Decided 01/03/2002
• Published 01/03/2002

Judges

• KEARSE, Circuit Judge., Before WALKER, Chief Judge, KEARSE and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Scott A. Rosenberg, New York, New York (Helaine Barnett, The Legal Aid Society, Civil Division, Civil Appeals & Law Reform Unit, New York, New York, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Henry Schoenfeld, New York, New York (Jeffrey Schanback, General Counsel, Nancy M. Harnett, Stephen W. Goodman, Steven J. Rappaport, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant.