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  • United States Court of AppealsFor the District of Columbia Circuit

  • from Part V - Justice
  • Edited by Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R. A. Lenhardt, Angela Onwuachi-Willig
  • Book:
    Critical Race Judgments
    Published online:
    22 April 2022
    Print publication:
    21 April 2022, pp 663-674

  • Summary

    Nos. 18604, 18605.Argued April 9, 1965.Decided August 11, 1965.

    J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge: J. HOUH, Circuit Judge.***

    Appellants in these consolidated cases, Ms. Ora Lee Williams and Mr. and Mrs. William and Ruth Thorne, are residents of predominantly Black and lower-income neighborhoods in the District of Columbia’s northeast and northwest quadrants, respectively. Appellee Walker-Thomas Furniture Company operates retail furniture stores in neighborhoods like appellants’ throughout the District. Over the course of several years, appellants purchased several household items, large and small, from appellee in a series of transactions, the terms of which were set forth in the many written contracts signed by appellants. Each of these written contracts described the items purchased in each transaction and their value.