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U.S. Appeals Court PLANNING

Regional Economic Community v. City of Middletown, 294 F.3d 35 (2nd Cir. 2002). A community action program brought a suit under the Fair Housing Act, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act, after it was denied a special-use permit to establish two halfway houses for recovering alcoholics. The district court ruled in favor of the defendants. The appeals court affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded. The appeals court held that the recovering alcoholics who would have been residents of...