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Trafficante V. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. - White Ghetto Tenants - Standing To Protest Landlord's Rental Discrimination, Rosalee Chiara
Trafficante V. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. - White Ghetto Tenants - Standing To Protest Landlord's Rental Discrimination, Rosalee Chiara
Cleveland State Law Review
The Supreme Court in Trafficante v. Metropolitan life Insurance Co. has held that tenants having standing under Tile VIII of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §3610(a), §3610(d) and 42 U.S.C. §19824 to sue their landlord for its alleged discriminatory rental practices.5 Plaintiffs, one black and one white, were tenants of an apartment complex in San Francisco whose tenant population of approximately 8,200 people was less than one percent black. The complaint alleged a variety of discriminatory rental practices directed toward non-white rental applicants and stated that plaintiffs had been injured in three respects. They claimed that they had …
Recent Developments In Equal Employment Opportunity Litigation, Howard R. Besser
Recent Developments In Equal Employment Opportunity Litigation, Howard R. Besser
Cleveland State Law Review
The 1964 Civil Rights Act, enacted on July 2nd of that year, represented an attempt by the federal government to deal with unlawful discrimination in many fields of endeavor, including housing, employment, public accommodations and facilities, federally assisted and federally funded programs, voting rights, etc. . . Title VII of that Act is specifically concerned with equal employment opportunity and creates the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to carry out the functions of the law.
Using Statistical Evidence To Enforce The Laws Against Discrimination, Kenneth Montlack
Using Statistical Evidence To Enforce The Laws Against Discrimination, Kenneth Montlack
Cleveland State Law Review
In actions brought under a variety of federal statutes barring racial discrimination, the federal judiciary has increasingly relied upon statistical evidence in determining the existence of unlawful discrimination. This article will seek to identify the nature and extent of such reliance on statistical evidence, discuss the reasons for the increasing use of statistical evidence, analyze the significance of the increase, and explore the potential for using statistical evidence in actions by the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.