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Ann Arbor CIL/The Ability Center v PTL

January 1, 2001 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: disability, Monroe, Reasonable Accommodation

#W01-31 Ann Arbor CIL/The Ability Center v PTL Monroe The Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living and The Ability Center of Greater Toledo settled their disability discrimination lawsuit against Coral Ridge Apartments in Monroe, Michigan. The suit alleged violations of the Federal Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1989. Both plaintiffs are non-profit disability advocacy groups. […]

Warren v Ypsilanti Housing Commission

January 1, 2000 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: sex, Ypsilanti

#W00-45 Warren v Ypsilanti Housing Commission Ypsilanti Soon after Aaronica Warren contacted the police to report an incidence of domestic violence by her former boyfriend, the Ypsilanti Housing Commission sent her an eviction notice. Focusing on a HUD one-strike policy, the Ypsilanti Housing Commission contended that Ms. Warren should be evicted because, according to her […]

Herring v Ludwig

January 1, 2000 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: age, Ann Arbor, student status

#W00-61 Herring v Ludwig Ann Arbor Sean Herring told the FHC he was refused an apartment reserved for “graduate students only”. The UM undergraduate contacted the FHC for an investigation of age discrimination. FHC testing found that the Ludwigs were willing to show the apartment to older undergraduates (in their 30′s and older) while undergraduates […]

Chapman v Latham

January 1, 2000 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: familial status, Milan

#W00-85 Chapman v Latham Milan FHC Cooperating Attorney Gayle Rosen filed suit on behalf of Stacey and Bradlee Chapman. According to Mrs. Chapman, her family was denied the rental of a duplex apartment in Milan, Michigan because her then fourteen-year-old son would be living in the apartment. According to the suit David Latham, owner of […]

Harbrecht v Ann Arbor Housing Commission

January 1, 2000 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: Ann Arbor, disability, Reasonable Accommodation

#W00-114 Harbrecht v Ann Arbor Housing Commission Ann Arbor Paul Harbrecht has a hearing impairment and requested an amplifier for the buzzer/intercom system of his apartment at Baker Commons. When no amplifier was installed Mr. Harbrecht asked the FHC to help. In November of 2000 FHC staff made another request for reasonable accommodation. Ericka M. […]

Azizuddin v Arrowwood Hills Cooperative

January 1, 2000 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: Ann Arbor, familial status

#W00-121 Azizuddin v Arrowwood Hills Cooperative Ann Arbor Single parent Sapphira Azizuddin contacted the FHC to report that she was denied an application for a one-bedroom townhouse because she planned to share the unit with her child. Testing supported this claim. FHC Cooperating Attorney Eric Spector filed on behalf of Ms. Azizuddin in U.S. Federal […]

Moody and Stowe v Frey

January 1, 2000 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: Ann Arbor, sex

#W00-131 Moody and Stowe v Frey Ann Arbor Two men, Shannon Moody and Robert Stowe, accepted $20,000 to settle their sex discrimination suit against Roland and Joan Frey of Ann Arbor. According to the suit, Roland and Joan Frey refused to rent their Potter Street apartment to two men. Moody and Stowe contacted the Fair […]

Ewen v Wilson White

January 1, 1998 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: Ann Arbor, City of Ann Arbor Human Rights Ordinance, income source, student status

#W98-27 Ewen v Wilson White Ann Arbor Refusing to count her student loan as income in their rent calculations, Wilson White denied University of Michigan student Jamie Ewen an off-campus apartment. Ewen came to the FHC and then filed suit in state court under the City of Ann Arbor Human Rights Ordinance. Believed to be […]

Coates et. al. v Myers

January 1, 1998 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: sex, Sexual Harassment, Ypsilanti Township

#W98-127 Coates et. al. v Myers Ypsilanti Township Six women filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against their former landlords, Raymond “Scott” Myers and his parents, Ernest and Becky Myers. Although the women had never met, all reported a similar pattern of behavior from Scott Myers. According to the lawsuit filed at the end of May […]

Williams v LeForge Villa

January 1, 1997 | Categories: Litigation | Tags: disability, Reasonable Accommodation, Ypsilanti Township

#W97-18 Williams v LeForge Villa Ypsilanti Township Pamela Williams has a disability that requires the use of a wheelchair. Williams sued LeForge Villa for refusing to provide a ramp outside of her unit to accommodate her disability. Court: State Settlement: $5,000, plus ramp

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