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• Town faces Fair Housing Act lawsuit for moratorium on multi-family housing

  
  Property Law DevelopmentsJoseph William Singer — Authority: 110
  A nonprofit organization named Mano en Mano that sought to build multi-family housing affordable by farm workers was stymied by a change in the town’s zoning law placing a moratorium on all multi-family housing. That change in the law may have been motivated by racially discriminatory motives (by at least some ...
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• Circuit split over whether Fair Housing Act regulates post-acquisition discrimination

  
  Property Law DevelopmentsJoseph William Singer — Authority: 110
  The federal courts cannot agree on the question of whether the Fair Housing Act (FHA) applies only to discrimination in acquiring or renting property or also applies to post-acquisition discrimination in provision of services. The Fifth Circuit held, in Cox v. Dallas, 430 F.3d 734 (5th Circ. 2005), that African ...
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• DOJ Files Discrimination Lawsuit against Apartment Owner in Missouri

  
  Real Estate Investors Daily — Authority: 130
  The Justice Department announced it has filed a lawsuit today in federal court for the Eastern District of Missouri alleging a pattern or practice of violations of the Fair Housing Act by the owner and managers of Forum Manor Apartments, a federally-subsidized apartment complex, for refusing to rent to ...
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• Disabled Woman Fights To Keep Therapy Dog

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 541
  SAN FRANCISCO—A woman suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome is suing to keep her therapy dog under Fair Housing and disability laws as she fights eviction from her mobile home park residence of 19 years.Represented by the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), Bay Area Legal Aid and solo attorney David Grabill, ...
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• Housing and employment protections for gays and lesbians

  
  Dee's 'Dotes — Authority: 118
  The Salt Lake City Council has become the first Utah City to pass ordinances that will prevent unfair housing practices based on sexual orientation. In a rare move, the LDS church attended last nights council meeting to support the ordinances. THE LGBT community has been working hard to foster a relationship with ...
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• 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Finds Insufficient Evidence to Support Discriminatory Enforcement Claims

  
  LAW OF THE LAND — Authority: 130
  Bonasera, a Hispanic woman living in a predominantly white neighborhood, installed a second kitchen in her home and in 1999 began renting rooms to boarders.  In 2006, following the complaints of a neighbor, the City cited her for violating City ordinances restricting the use of her property to “one family ...
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• Landlords; don’t forget people with disabilities are also covered by the Fair Housing Act otherwise it will cost you

  
  Real Estate Investors Daily — Authority: 130
  Publishers note: We frequently published news releases having to do with allegations of, or settlements of, Fair Housing violations – the purpose of us doing so is to help educate landlords and heighten awareness of the various ways that a landlord may be violating the Fair Housing Act, even though in many cases ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Spano’s Suicide: Housing Plan Doomed County Exec”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 620
  The New York Post has now picked up a slightly shortened version of my City Journal piece on the housing lawsuit that contributed to a voter revolt in Westchester (cross-posted from Point of Law ). Tags: fair housing , NYC , WO writings Related posts NY Times op-ed: city gun-liability law (1) ...
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• Whitley Case 607 F Supp 2d 885 Denial of Motion to Dismiss

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 131
  Whitley 3rd amended Complaint Somebody send me the full text OF THE OPINION. I am having trouble pulling up the full text. VERY IMPORTANT CASE WHITLEY v. TAYLOR BEAN & WHITACKER MORTGAGE CORP. (N.D.Ill. 4-20-2009) No. 08 C 3114. April 20, 2009 Ida Mae Whitley (“Mrs. Whitley”), Clyde Whitley (“Mr. ...
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• After a housing-suit settlement, Westchester voters rebel

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 620
  I’ve got a new piece up at City Journal on Tuesday’s sensational Westchester County upset, in which GOP challenger Rob Astorino knocked off Andy Spano, the longtime Democratic incumbent county executive, by a convincing 58-42 percent margin. Taxes were a key issue, but so was the county’s consent to what was ...
  3 weeks ago

• No Rush Limbaugh Treatment for Them

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 629
  By Debbie SchlusselThree sports stories in the news today make you wonder why there’s no outcry about them beyond the sports pages, the way there was with Rush Limbaugh’s attempt to become a minority NFL owner.No Rush Limbaugh Treatment for Them . . .Donald Sterling, Tom Cable, Gus JohnsonI mean, Rush was never a ...
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• Housing Discrimination is Expensive

  
  Real Estate Investors Daily — Authority: 130
  Justice Department Obtains Record $2.725 Million Settlement of Housing Discrimination Lawsuit WASHINGTON– The Justice Department announced today the largest monetary payment ever obtained by the department in the settlement of a case alleging housing discrimination in the rental of apartments. Los Angeles apartment ...
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