The Contract Buyers League and the Courts

A Case Study of Poverty Litigation

Bibliographic Data

ID4084019
AuthorsJeffrey M Fitzgerald (corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume9
Issue2
Pages165-195
Publication date1975-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLaw & Society Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3052974
OpenAlexW2313758377
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited13

The Contract Buyers League (C.B.L.), a group of middle-aged black people claiming to have been over-charged and exploited in the purchase of their homes, emerged on Chicago's west side during the winter of 1967-68. From 1968 to 1971 C.B.L. gained considerable publicity and support for its claims by the use of such tactics as picketing, withholding housing payments, and resisting attempts at eviction. In addition, the members of C.B.L. have had a complicated set of encounters with the legal system which continue at the time of writing (August 1974). This paper uses the most significant of these encounters to explore in a more theoretical way certain aspects of litigation involving poor and minority groups

Business · Economics · Law and economics · League · Political science · Poverty · Corporate Law and Human Rights · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa

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