Heather Stone

On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which was a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The 1968 Act prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, (and as later amended) handicap and family status. Title VIII of the Act is also known as the Fair Housing Act (FHA).

A tenant who lives by himself complains that a member of your maintenance staff has inappropriately groped and made unwelcome sexual advances to his girlfriend on numerous occasions. Other female tenants have made similar complaints about the same employee. To the extent the allegations are true, to whom would you be potentially liable for sexual discrimination and harassment?

Every January, the Coach offers a Scorecard briefing that breaks down the previous year’s key federal fair housing cases and their impact on you. Our Scorecard counts only reported federal court cases in which a landlord was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Ac...

A shareholder-tenant of the NYC co-op kept a series of parrots in her apartment. In 2015 she acquired a new parrot that neighbors complained was particularly noisy. The landlord co-op corporation sent the tenant a number of letters warning her about the noise as a violation of her proprietary lease and house rules prohibiting excessive noise ...