United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of an order of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is denied and cross-petition for enforcement is granted where: 1) plaintiff's due process rights were not violated as the agency provided frequent notice that plaintiff chose to ignore; 2) plaintiff's claim that the monetary penalty was unauthorized because the ALJ did not consider her financial resources fails, as plaintiff walked out of the hearing and a person who fails to supply information forfeits any complaint that the decisionmaker was uninformed on some issue; and 3) plaintiff Fung's claims fail as the agency's actions were not arbitrary or capricious, and his attempt to invoke 42 U.S.C. sec. 3603(b)(1) is frivolous.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/01/2009
• Decided 06/23/2009
• Published 06/23/2009

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jennifer Ho, Chicago, IL, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Laura Gonzalez, TGC Partners, Leslie V. Matlaw (argued), Chicago, IL, for Intervening Petitioner/Cross-Respondent., Christopher Chen-Hsin Wang (argued), Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent/Cross-Petitioner., J. Damian Ortiz (argued), John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic, Chicago, IL, for Intervening Respondents.