United States v. Starrett City Associates

840 F.2d 1096 (1988)

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United States v. Starrett City Associates

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
840 F.2d 1096 (1988)

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Facts

Starrett City Associates (Starrett) (defendant) operates a housing development in Brooklyn where it maintained a set racial distribution by apartment. Starrett sought a racial composition of about 64% white, 22% black, and 8% Hispanic residents in its complex at all times. In order to do this, Starrett kept a pool of applicants sorted by race and when a tenant moved out, Starrett chose an applicant the same race as the departing tenant to take over. A group of black applicants brought suit alleging racial discrimination. The parties reached a settlement under which Starrett would allocate additional units to minority applicants for five years. The federal government then commenced an action against Starrett in order to have a court make a determination on the legality of Starrett’s quota policy. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled against Starrett. Starrett appealed.

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Holding and Reasoning (Miner, J.)

Dissent (Newman, J.)

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