United States Ninth Circuit

The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. 42 USC 11901(2), which allows drug users to be evicted from public housing, does not apply to tenants who have a drug-using household member or guest.

Appellate Information

• Argued Array
• Decided 01/24/2001
• Published 01/24/2001

Judges

• Before:  SNEED, SCHROEDER, PREGERSON, REINHARDT, FERNANDEZ, T.G. NELSON, HAWKINS, SILVERMAN, McKEOWN, GOULD, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gary T. Lafayette,Lafayette, Kumagai & Clarke, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellants Harold Davis and The Oakland Housing Authority., Howard S. Scher, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., Whitty Somvichian, Paul Renne, Cooley Godward LLP, San Francisco, California, Ira Jacobowitz, Oakland, California, Anne Tamiko Omura, Collective Legal Services-The Eviction Defense Center, Oakland, California, William Simpich, Mathew Siegel, Oakland, California, Robert Salinas, Sundeen and Salinas, Oakland, California, John Murcko, Oakland, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.