## Facts

- The plaintiff was the N.A.A.C.P., Boston Chapter.
- The defendant was the Secretary of Housing and Community Development (as named in the caption).
- The case was decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1987 and is published at 817 F.2d 149.
- Publicly available, open-access materials located for this assignment confirm the citation, court, year, and authorship (Breyer, J.), but do not provide the opinion text or a reliable summary of the underlying factual record, the precise claims, or the lower court’s detailed rulings.
- Because the opinion text was not available from open sources, this brief does not restate specific allegations (e.g., particular programs, transactions, or statutory sections) that cannot be verified from the accessible record.

## Issues

1. What legal claims and theories did the N.A.A.C.P., Boston Chapter properly present against the Secretary of Housing and Community Development on the record before the First Circuit?
2. Did the district court commit reversible error in its disposition of the NAACP’s challenge to the Secretary’s actions (as reflected in the judgment under appellate review)?

## Decision

- The First Circuit issued a published decision in **N.A.A.C.P., Boston Chapter v. Secretary of Housing and Community Development**, **817 F.2d 149 (1st Cir. 1987)**, authored by **Judge Breyer**.
- Open-access sources consulted for this rewrite do not provide the opinion’s text or a dependable account of the panel’s full reasoning, the specific rule(s) applied, or the exact procedural disposition (e.g., affirmed, reversed, vacated, or remanded).

## Legal Principles

- A published decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit constitutes binding precedent within that circuit on the legal points actually decided in the opinion.
- Where the underlying opinion text is unavailable, a case brief should not state specific facts, holdings, or rules of law that cannot be confirmed from a reliable copy of the decision.

## Conclusion

**N.A.A.C.P., Boston Chapter v. Secretary of Housing and Community Development, 817 F.2d 149 (1st Cir. 1987)** is a First Circuit decision authored by Judge Breyer involving a suit by the NAACP’s Boston Chapter against a housing and community development secretary; however, because the opinion text and substantive summaries were not available from open sources for this rewrite, the brief is limited to verified citation-level information and does not attribute unverified facts, issues, holdings, or legal rules to the case.


N.A.A.C.P., Boston Chapter v. Secretary of Housing and Community Development, 817 F.2d 149 (1987)