Sentences with phrase «discrimination against her landlord»

Not exact matches

This became painfully clear in 1996 when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the Alaska Supreme Court's Swanner decision, which held that the state's interest in preventing discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples is sufficiently great that it trumps the objections of landlords who believe they are forbidden by God to permit «fornication» on their property.

Cuomo ordered that an existing probe into housing discrimination against immigrants also look into landlords who won't rent to people with kids.

In 2014, the Attorney General reached agreements with three NYC real estate brokers and two Buffalo landlords for discrimination against prospective tenants who received government assistance.

From his time working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.»

Lastly, Oklahoma's Landlord and Tennant Act prohibit discrimination against tenants who have «Service Dogs.»

If the default rule does not apply because a civil rights law unrelated to immigration bars discrimination against a tenant, someone's undocumented immigrant status probably doesn't provide an absolute defense to the civil rights law, but might be one factor among many that a landlord could consider in choosing among available tenants in much the same way that credit ratings, income, and a prospective tenant's criminal record, and other factors might be considered.

A federal court has considered whether a tenant could move forward with his race and familial status discrimination allegations against former landlord.

However, the Housing Group found a pattern of discrimination by the Landlord and so filed a lawsuit with the Tenant against the Landlord in 2003, alleging discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, and disability in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act («Act»).

A federal court in New York has considered whether a white tenant's Fair Housing lawsuit alleging incidents of racial discrimination by the landlord against visitors to the tenant's apartment could proceed to the jury.

In January 1989, Whitesell, on advice of counsel and in response to an awareness of housing discrimination suits against landlords, sent Crigler a memo stating that no one who met all other qualifications for tenancy was to be denied the right to rent a unit because of discrimination on the basis of race, creed, or physical impairment.

Ignorance of the law can cost landlords plenty — for example, if you need to hire an attorney to defend you against a tenant's discrimination complaint.

Landlords who lose those battles may face large and unexpected damages awards to the tenants and penalties payable to HUD for the discrimination against those tenants.