ACLU of Georgia, Cohen Milstein Team Up for Housing Discrimination Lawsuit
A North Georgia woman claims she was evicted from her rental home because she invited a black co-worker and their child over for a playdate with her children.
July 10, 2019 at 01:54 PM
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The ACLU of Georgia has teamed up with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to sue a northwest Georgia couple who allegedly evicted a white tenant because she invited an African American woman into her rental home.
The suit, filed Wednesday on behalf of Victoria Sutton, contends that Gordon County landlords Patricia and Allen McCoy used racial epithets and threats—some of which Sutton recorded—when they evicted Sutton from a residence she rented from the couple in Adairsville. Sutton and her family were evicted in December 2018—about three months after she began inviting an African American co-worker with a 5-year-old son over for playdates with Sutton's two daughters, ages 2 and 9, the suit alleges.
ACLU of Georgia lawyers Sean Young and Kosha Tucker, and Kalpana Kotagal and Brian Corman of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll are representing Sutton.
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