One & Ken Valley Housing Group v. Maine State Housing Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that Section 8 “authorize^] the HUD secretary ‘to enter into annual con tributions contracts with public housing agencies pursuant to which such agencies may enter into contracts to make housing assistance payments to owners of existing dwelling units’”
• finding an issue substantial where its resolution could require HUD to \scale back the scope of the Section 8 program\
• finding federal question jurisdiction when the state law claims raised disputes in contracts \approved by a federal agency and signed by a federal official\
• finding federal question jurisdiction where outcome of legal question raised by plaintiffs would dictate the outcome in many other cases filed by landlords across the country
• same where “the “dispute . . . turn[s] on the interpretation of a contract provision approved by a federal agency pursuant to a federal statutory scheme” (quotation marks omitted)
• discussing rental subsidies to private landlords for low-income housing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).