Matter of Lanigan v. A.T.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that a district court may properly deny class certification where a class is not needed to achieve the same result
• finding that the city officials should be “directed to . . . allow the farmworkers’ housing project to tie into the City’s water and sewer system”
• city refused to extend water and sewer service to low income housing project although it had extended service to other developments
• city refused to extend water and sewer service to low income housing project although it had extended service to other developments
• “The importance of the City’s presence as a named party defendant lies in the fact that relief against the City officials may not always provide a complete substitute for relief against the City itself.”
• “Even with the denial of class action status, the requested injunctive and declaratory relief will benefit not only the individual appellants and the nonprofit corporation but all other persons subject to the [discriminatory] practice under attack.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).