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JOHNSON v. LEVITT & SONS

Civ. A. No. 18365.

131 F.Supp. 114 (1955)

Arthur L. JOHNSON et al. v. LEVITT & SONS, Inc., et al.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 16, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter A. Gay, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., David E. Pinsky, Philadelphia, Pa., Constance Baker Motley, Thurgood Marshall, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Green, Philadelphia, Pa., for Levitt and Sons, Inc.

Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen. Civ. Div., W. Wilson White, U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., Edward H. Hickey, Chief, Gen. Litigation Sec. Civil Div., Carl Eardley, Atty., Civ. Div. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for Gov. Agencies.

KIRKPATRICK, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs are Negro citizens of the United States and the defendants are (1) a New York corporation (Levitt) engaged in the construction of a new community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, known as Levittown and (2) the chiefs and local directors of the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans' Administration, government agencies which have assisted in the financing of the project through the guaranteeing of mortgages securing money...

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