United States Eighth Circuit

In an action alleging that certain housing projects would violate the Fair Housing Act, defendant-Housing Authority articulated general and specific objectives for the projects which were legitimate and facially neutral, and the district court did not err in granting judgment for defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2005
• Published 08/08/2005

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before MELLOY, BOWMAN, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ann B. Lever, argued, St. Louis, MO (Daniel K. Glazier, St. Louis, MO, on the brief), for appellant Darst-Webbe., John J. Ammann, St. Louis University Legal Clinic, on the brief, for appellant Peabody Tenant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert A. Graham, argued, Washington, D.C., for appellees St. Louis Housing Authority and Cheryl A. Lovell., Barbara C. Biddle and August E. Flentje, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., on the brief, for appellees U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al.