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Discriminatory Housing Statements And §3604(C): A New Look At The Fair Housing Act’S Most Intriguing Provision, Robert G. Schwemm

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Today, more than three decades after the 1968 Fair Housing Act ("FHA") banned such behavior, blatant discrimination—often accompanied by racist slurs and other explicitly discriminatory statements—continues to plague America's housing markets. The FHA not only outlawed discrimination in most housing transactions on the basis of race, color, religion, and national origin, but also contained a specific prohibition, § 3604(c), banning all discriminatory housing statements. Unlike the FHA's more traditional prohibitions against discriminatory refusals to deal and discriminatory terms and conditions, § 3604(c)'s ban on discriminatory statements has not been the subject of much litigation or debate.

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Procedural Rules Or Procedural Pretexts?: A Case Study Of Procedural Hurdles In Constitutional Challenges To The Texas Sodomy Law, Christopher R. Leslie

Kentucky Law Journal

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"Simply So Different": The Uniquely Expressive Character Of The Openly Gay Individual After Boy Scouts Of America V. Dale, Nancy J. Knauer

Kentucky Law Journal

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Allowing A Title Vii Punitive Damage Award Without An Accompanying Compensatory Or Nominal Award: Further Unifying The Federal Civil Rights Laws, Kelly Koenig Levi

Kentucky Law Journal

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Proportional Equality: Readings Of Romer, Nan D. Hunter

Kentucky Law Journal

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Vermont Civil Unions, Full Faith And Credit, And Marital Status, Lewis A. Silverman

Kentucky Law Journal

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Currents In The Stream: The Evolving Legal Status Of Gay And Lesbian Persons In Kentucky, Matthew M. Morrison

Kentucky Law Journal

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Romer, Hurley, And Dale: How The Supreme Court Languishes With "Special Rights", Christopher S. Hargis

Kentucky Law Journal

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Racial Profiling And Whren: Searching For Objective Evidence Of The Fourth Amendment On The Nation's Roads, Alberto B. Lopez

Kentucky Law Journal

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Tax Expenditures, Social Justice And Civil Rights: Expanding The Scope Of Civil Rights Laws To Apply To Tax-Exempt Charities, David A. Brennen

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In recent years, courts have decided a number of cases in which private organizations discriminated against people based solely on their race, gender, sexual orientation, or other immutable traits. For example, in 2000, the Boy Scouts of America revoked a New Jersey man's membership in the Boy Scouts because he was gay. New Jersey's supreme court held that the Boy Scouts' action violated New Jersey's anti-discrimination law. Notwithstanding the state court's holding, the United States Supreme Court concluded that the First Amendment prevented any court from forcing the Boy Scouts to keep a gay man as a member of its …