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Virginia Offers Guidance For Confirming That Medical Verifications for Emotional Support Animals Are Legitimate
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It is clear that just about all (if not all) of the federal, state, and local fair housing agencies are dealing with the exponential growth of online medical verifications for…
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Familial Status Discrimination Case (Concerning a Family With 12 People) Settles in California
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Last fall, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) resolved a familial status fair housing case that I wanted to highlight. Familial status, of course, is the protected…
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California Apartment Owner Pays $100,000 to Settle Emotional Support Animal Fair Housing Case
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Many times the cases with what look like the most egregious set of facts are the ones that get the most publicity. To that end, a fair housing case in…
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DOJ Files Sexual Harassment Fair Housing Act Case Against Property Owners in Kansas
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Continuing down a path that has been highlighted in the news lately, last week the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Kansas alleging…
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DOJ Settles FHA Cases Alleging Sexual Harassment and Announces New Initiative to Fight Sexual Harassment
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it has settled a handful of cases in which plaintiffs made allegations of sexual misconduct under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and…
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HUD Resolves Fair Housing Case Against the State of Maryland for $225,000
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Pursuant to an agreement announced last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that it resolved a discrimination complaint filed by local housing advocacy groups against…
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Appellate Court Describes Elements of FHA Retaliation Claim
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In a case involving the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a new opinion which details the elements of a…
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Bill To Amend the Fair Housing Act Introduced in Congress
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In an effort to strengthen protections in the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) against sexual harassment, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan introduced a bill…
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DOJ Settles Familial Status Fair Housing Act Case for $95,000
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Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it settled yet another Fair Housing Act (FHA) case, this time for a total of $95,000. In a case…
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