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TABLE OP CONTENTS

FACTS ...................................... H36

JURISDICTION .............................. H45

ANALYSIS .................................. 1147

Title VIII .................................. 1147

Plaintiffs’ Prima Facie Case .............. 1148

Supplemental Defendants’ Justifications ... 1152

California Government Code § 65008 ........ 1157

Discrimination on the Basis of Race ...... 1157

Discrimination on the Basis of Income ____1158

Discrimination on the Basis of Government

Assistance ............................... 1159

CONCLUSION ............................... 1160

APPENDIX A ...............................1160

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ENJOINING HAWTHORNE FROM VIOLATING TITLE VIII, 42 U.S.C. § 3604 (a), AND CALIFORNIA GOV.CODE § 65008(b), (c) & (d).

FACTS

In February of 1972, persons living in the path of the proposed 1-105 or Century Freeway, the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and others filed this environmental and civil rights lawsuit against state and federal governmental officials. In April of 1972, the plaintiffs amended the complaint to add the city of Hawthorne, located in…