Skip to main content
DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Reverend Chester C. Thompson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Walter E. Washington, Individually and as Commissioner of the District of Columbia and as "The Authority" of the National Capitol Housing Authority Under Executive Order Elizabeth Marshall v. Patricia Roberts Harris, Individually and in Her Capacity as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 551 F.2d 1316 (1977)

Citation
Reverend Chester C. Thompson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Walter E. Washington, Individually and as Commissioner of the District of Columbia and as "The Authority" of the National Capitol Housing Authority Under Executive Order Elizabeth Marshall v. Patricia Roberts Harris, Individually and in Her Capacity as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 551 F.2d 1316 (1977)
Parent Document
Reverend Chester C. Thompson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Walter E. Washington, Individually and as Commissioner of the District of Columbia and as "The Authority" of the National Capitol Housing Authority Under Executive Order Elizabeth Marshall v. Patricia Roberts Harris, Individually and in Her Capacity as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 551 F.2d 1316 (1977)
Effective Date
1977-02-15

Other Sections in This Document (54)

Full Text

827 chars
5
Williams v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, 134 U.S.App.D.C. 342, 415 F.2d 922, 944 (1968) (en banc ), cert. denied, 393 U.S. 1081, 89 S.Ct. 860, 21 L.Ed.2d 773 (1969), quoting Atlantic Coast Line R. R. v. Florida, 295 U.S. 301, 310, 55 S.Ct. 713, 79 L.Ed. 1451 (1935). Accord, Democratic Central Committee v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, supra at 825. Williams involved a petition for direct review of an order by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission concluding that a particular rate of return on the D.C. Transit System's operating revenues was just and reasonable. Thus, in contrast to the instant cases in which we are merely providing appellate review of equity decrees entered by the trial courts, Williams required us to function as the equity court of first resort