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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

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§ 2
Parent Document
Eunice Samuels, Lorraine Warren v. District of Columbia, 770 F.2d 184 (1985)
Effective Date
1985-08-06

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Congress clearly intended to require local PHAs to provide an administrative grievance procedure for tenant complaints of adverse PHA action, and nothing in the structure or history of the Act indicates that Congress intended to foreclose private enforcement of that obligation. If anything, we believe, the District’s alleged administration of federally-funded public housing in defiance of explicit and mandatory federal law occasions a core application of section 1983 as that statute was interpreted in Thiboutot. 12 *199 III. The Alleged Violations of Federal Law