FHA Defense
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Disability, criminality, and disparate impact under the FHA – brewing a tempest in a teapot.
The recent decision from Judge Vanessa Bryant in Connecticut Fair Housing Center v. CoreLogic Rental Property Solutions, LLC, 2020 WL 4570110 (D.Conn. August 7, 2020) was followed only weeks later by HUD’s final regulation on disparate impact claims, 85 FR at 60288, September 24, 2020.¹ The CoreLogic decision’s most important holding was that a third party tenant… Continue reading
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Quick Hits – Christmas in September
The title of today’s blog recognizes the gift bestowed by Judge Nannette Brown on everyone interested in the ADA in all its many details. Bailey v. Bd. of Commissioners of Louisiana Stadium and Exposition Dist., 2020 WL 5309962 (E.D. La. Sept. 4, 2020) is the latest of Judge Brown’s decisions concerning the dispute over stadium… Continue reading
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Disabilities, voting and the ADA.
I was planning on another review of recent decisions in the ADA and FHA world but was struck by the number of recent decisions about voting and the ADA. They are a pleasant break from the usual run of ADA cases motivated by nothing but the greed of the plaintiffs’ bar, and while they may… Continue reading
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Thanks for the shout-out Lainey – a website plug-in followup
Lainey Feingold, a long time and well know advocate for those with disabilities, referred to my earlier blog on website plug-ins* that promise accessibility in her latest blog. HONOR THE ADA: AVOID WEB ACCESSIBILITY QUICK-FIX OVERLAYS. That was nice, but even better was the way she collected other sources on website plug-ins and their problems, making her… Continue reading
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Has the Florida legislature found a solution for fake ESA’s?
In late June Florida became, with the passage of Senate Bill 1084, the latest state to take on the problem of emotional support animals. From the descriptions in various articles it would have appeared two opposite bills were passed, for the statute was praised as both helping eliminate fraudulent ESA claims and helping disabled individuals… Continue reading
