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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Narcisa Lopez v. Henry Phipps Plaza South, Inc., 498 F.2d 937 (1974)

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Narcisa Lopez v. Henry Phipps Plaza South, Inc., 498 F.2d 937 (1974)
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Narcisa Lopez v. Henry Phipps Plaza South, Inc., 498 F.2d 937 (1974)
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1974-06-18

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. The procedures now required by the HUD circular governing evictions from public housing projects, Grievance Procedure in Low Rent Public Housing Projects, HUD Circular RHM 7465.9 (Feb. 22, 1971), are inapplicable here. Nonetheless, the procedure followed in this case would seem to comply with the requirements of the circular. The circular provides that a public housing authority can select either “an impartial official or a hearing panel” to hear tenant grievances. If the panel is used, the tenants and the housing authority are to be equally represented, “with an impartial member appointed as a tie breaker.” No specific restrictions are placed on the “impartial official” if the authority opts to use a single hearing officer. Thus Codman apparently would not be disqualified from serving as the impartial hearing officer under the provisions of the circular simply because he was an employee of another Phipps project. 6 . In the Atchison