Publication Date: 2019-12-12
Practice Area: Civil Rights | Landlord Tenant Law
Industry: Real Estate
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier
Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Yiyang Wu, John P. Relman, on the brief, Sasha Samberg-Champion, Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC, Washington, DC.
for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: Stanley J. Somer, on the brief, Melissa Corwin, Somer, Heller & Corwin LLP, Commack, NY.
For Amicus Curiae United States of America: Vanita Gupta, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Jennifer Levin Eichhorn, Sharon McGowan, Thomas Chandler, United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC; Tonya T. Robinson, Acting General Counsel, Michelle Aronowitz, Deputy General Counsel for Enforcement and Fair Housing, Kathleen Pennington, M. Casey Weissman-Vermeulen, Alexandria Lippincott, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC.
For Amicus Curiae AARP: Susan Ann Silverstein, AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, DC.
Case Number: 15-1823-cv
Landlord May Be Liable on FHA By Not Addressing Race-Based Tenant-on-Tenant Harassment