HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 14.5.5 Civil Rights Jurisdiction (28 U.S.C. § 1343)
Although civil rights jurisdiction is also superfluous230 since the elimination of the amount-in-controversy requirement for Section 1331, claimants still invoke it along with Section 1331 in civil rights cases.231 Among other things, Section 1343 gives federal district courts jurisdiction over civil actions challenging actions taken under color of state law that deny constitutional or statutory rights to equality or enforcing federal civil rights statutes.2