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Emotional Support Animals, Fact, Fantasy and Fiction
My webinar Emotional Support Animals Under the FHA – Fact, Fantasy, and Fraud (Update) is now available live from Lawline. The news covered in my last blog and other actions by the Trump Administration have important consequences for landlords, management companies, owners associations and other housing providers even while the underlying law and science remain Continue reading
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The Trump Administration and Disability Rights
My webinar on The Trump Administration and Disability rights is now available on Lawline. You can find it a Lawline.com, a good place to find my earlier seminars: FHA and ADA Accessibility Requirements: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know and Your Office is a Public Accommodation: What Professionals Need to Know About the ADA You Continue reading
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ADA website litigation – up, down or sideways?
What can be made of this assortment of information concerning ADA litigation over website accessibility? May 2025 website accessibility litigation – 445 new cases, 123 of which against previous defendants and 119 against websites using some form of widget that supposedly improves accessibility.¹ May 2025 headline “Federal Trade Commission Orders accessiBe to Pay $1M For Continue reading
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Source-of-income discrimination under the FHA
That title is a little misleading because, in fact, the federal Fair Housing Act does not prohibit source-of-income discrimination.¹ I noted just this morning a case from Maryland² discussing a specific issue related to source-of-income discrimination and thought this was a good reason to take a brief look at source-of-income laws. I have to start Continue reading
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Supplemental jurisdiction of Unruh Act claims in California – what will 2025 bring?
In 2022 the 9th Circuit made it clear that a federal district court could decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over an Unruh Act claim . Vo v. Choi, 49 F.4th 1167 (9th Cir. 2022). Vo v Choi has been cited 642 times, almost always in the context of a serial filer who has included an Unruh Continue reading

