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RUFFIN v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NEW ORLEANS

Civ. A. No. 68-841.

301 F.Supp. 251 (1969)

Geraldine L. RUFFIN et al., Plaintiffs, v. The HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NEW ORLEANS et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

June 20, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey B. Schwartz, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

James M. Colomb, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendants.

RUBIN, District Judge:

This class action involves the rights of tenants in public housing to procedural due process of law in their relationship with the Housing Authority of New Orleans. Plaintiff, Geraldine Ruffin, a public housing tenant threatened with eviction, seeks a declaration that various procedural safeguards must be employed by the defendant before she may be evicted from her apartment.

The extent to which the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments import...

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