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Fair Housing Act (FHA) Sexual Orientation Discrimination

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HUD Acting Assistant Secretary issues directive to enforce FHA to prohibit sexual orientation discrimination: What are the...

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Last week, HUD’s Acting Assistant Director for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity issued a memorandum directing HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity to take a series of actions “to administer and fully enforce...more

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HUD Says LGBTQ Individuals Protected Under Fair Housing Act

Last year, in Fair Housing Act Prohibits LGBTQ Discrimination, I discussed a related topic: challenges transgender opera singers face in navigating vocal ranges during and after their transition. That article discussed the...more

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Fair Housing Act Prohibits LGBTQ Discrimination

Earlier this year, in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held that discrimination against LGBTQ individuals violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Bostock is a landmark decision that will...more

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California Familial Status, Marital Status, And Sexual Orientation Housing Discrimination Case Settles For $15,000

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Highlighting the interplay between the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) and state anti-discrimination laws, earlier this year the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) announced it resolved a housing...more

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United States Senate to Consider Legislation Expanding Fair Housing Protection to LGBTQ Community

A bipartisan measure was introduced in the United States Senate in late April to expand fair housing protections to LGBTQ persons. The Fair and Equal Housing Act of 2019, introduced by Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Angus...more

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Supreme Court To Answer Question If Sexual Orientation Is Covered Under The Civil Rights Laws

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In a series of three cases accepted for review earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court will likely answer a question in 2020 that will likely impact our federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) and how one of its protected classes –...more

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Assisted Living Facilities, Beware: Fair Housing Act May Soon Knock At Your Door

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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) not only creates liability when a landlord intentionally discriminates against a tenant based on a protected characteristic; it also...more

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Seventh Circuit Holding In Sexual Orientation Fair Housing Lawsuit May Foreshadow Similar Claims Brought Against Health Care...

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On August 27, 2018, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an Illinois District Court in holding that a seventy-year-old homosexual woman could maintain her Fair Housing Act (FHA) claims against retirement community,...more

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Best Practices Concerning The Fair Housing Act and Sexual Orientation Discrimination

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Earlier this month we noted that a federal court in Colorado ruled that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation (although sexual orientation is not contained in the text of the...more

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Colorado District Court Issues Landmark Decision Holding that the Fair Housing Act Prohibits Discrimination Based on Sexual...

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In a recent landmark decision, Colorado District Court Judge Raymond Moore ruled that the Federal Fair Housing Act’s prohibition against housing discrimination includes discrimination against LGBT people. The decision was...more

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Fair Lending Director Ficklin Discusses Small Business Lending, LGBT issues, LEP consumers and Inclusive Communities at ABA...

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Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of teaching a class on payments and banking products to new lawyers at the American Bar Association’s Consumer Financial Services Institute. I arrived early for the class and got to hear a...more

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Not-So-Sudden Impact: Insurers Face A New Breed Of Claim Under the Fair Housing Act (Part 1 of 3)

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Late in June, in Texas Dept. of Housing v. Inclusive Communities, No. 13–1371 (U.S. June 25, 2015), the U.S. Supreme Court ended years of debate by embracing a “disparate impact” claim against a housing authority under the...more

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