Court Opinion

ID: 9453796
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:24:03.487716+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:48.335047
License: Public Domain

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring except as to Parts I and II):
The considerations bearing upon statutory construction, so impressively marshalled by Judge Wright in Part III of his opinion, have made it unnecessary for me to pursue in any degree the constitutional speculations contained in Parts I and II; and it is for this reason that I do not join in them. The issue of statutory construction presented in this case has never seemed to me to be a difficult one, nor to require for its resolution the spur of avoidance of constitutional questions. A Congress which authorizes housing code promulgation and enforcement clearly cannot be taken to have excluded retaliatory eviction of the kind here alleged as a defense under
a routine statutory eviction mechanism also provided by Congress.