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UNITED STATES v. CITY OF BLACK JACK, MISSOURI

No. 71 C 372 (1).

372 F.Supp. 319 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF BLACK JACK, MISSOURI, a municipal corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Missouri, E. D.

March 20, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald J. Stohr, U. S. Atty., Terry I. Adelman, Asst. U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Rights Div., Norman P. Goldberg and Carolyn A. Reed, Attys., Housing Section, Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Bruce S. Feldacker, St. Louis, Mo., Jewish Community Relations Council, amicus curiae for plaintiff.

Roy W. Bergmann, Sheldon K. Stock, Clayton, Mo., for defendant.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

MEREDITH, Chief Judge.

In this action the United States has alleged that the City of Black Jack, Missouri, has engaged in racially discriminatory housing practices in violation of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq., by exercising its zoning powers to exclude Park View Heights, a federally-subsidized housing development for low to moderate income persons. The United States claims that racial...

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