ABSTRACT
In Moore v. City of East Cleveland, 431 US 494, and the US Supreme Court was brought face-to-face with the changing nature of the typical American family. This new family was composed of Inez Moore, a resident of East Cleveland, Ohio, who shared her home with her son Dale and her two grandsons. One of her grandsons, John Jr., who was the child of her other son, John, had returned to live with Inez Moore after his own mother died. In the meantime, East Cleveland passed an ordinance that limited occupancy of each dwelling unit to members of a single family, with "family" defined essentially as the nuclear family of parents and their children. Moore, who was then sixty-three years old, subsequently received a notice from the city informing her that she was in violation of the housing ordinance and directing her to remove John Jr. from her home.
