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Private Enforcement And The Fair Housing Act, Robert G. Schwemm

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The first section of the Fair Housing Act declares that "[i]t is the policy of the United States to provide, within constitutional limitations, for fair housing throughout the United States." If the United States has been officially committed to providing for fair housing for the past 20 years, why is segregated housing still the prevailing norm throughout our nation? Why does discrimination still regularly occur when minority homeseekers venture into white areas? Why are the opportunities for living in stable, integrated neighborhoods only marginally better now than they were a generation ago in the days of Lyndon Johnson, Everett McKinley …

Enforcement Of The Fair Housing Act: What Role Should The Federal Government Play?, Alex Waldrop

Kentucky Law Journal

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Compensatory Damages In Federal Fair Housing Cases, Robert G. Schwemm

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The federal fair housing laws became effective in 1968. Since then, courts have often awarded damages to victims of housing discrimination, but their decisions have provided little guidance for assessing the amount of such awards. There is a great range of awards, with some courts awarding only nominal damages of $1 and others setting awards of over $20,000. Compounding the problem is the difficulty of measuring the principal element of damages claimed by most plaintiffs in fair housing cases, noneconomic emotional harm or other forms of intangible injury.

Rarely is the basis for the amount of the court's award satisfactorily …

Standing To Sue In Fair Housing Cases, Robert G. Schwemm

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Few procedural issues have commanded more attention from the Supreme Court in recent years than standing. The question of who is a proper party to bring a particular claim has arisen in a variety of contexts, but the Court has been especially active in addressing standing problems in cases concerning allegations of housing discrimination. The recent decision of Gladstone Realtors v. Village of Bellwood marked the fifth time in the past decade that the justices have decided a fair housing case on standing grounds.

The Supreme Court's determination to emphasize standing issues in many of its early fair housing opinions …

Child Exclusion Policies In Housing, Larry D. Barnett

Kentucky Law Journal

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Discriminatory Effect And The Fair Housing Act, Robert G. Schwemm

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This article addresses the question of whether housing practices that produce discriminatory effects violate the Fair Housing Act. The language and legislative history of the statute are examined, the analogy to employment discrimination law is explored, and the principal Title VIII cases are considered in an effort to determine just what racial discrimination is under the Fair Housing Act. This analysis leads to a suggested approach for evaluating Title VIII cases that are based on discriminatory effect, including how such an effect may be shown by the plaintiff and what significance such a showing should have in terms of the …

Cooperative Apartments: A Survey Of Legal Treatment And An Argument For Homestead Protection, Carolyn S. Bratt

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

“The homestead may be a splendid mansion, a cabin or a tent,” but can it be a cooperative apartment? The supreme courts of both Florida and Georgia recently have answered this question in the negative. The Florida Supreme Court denied to a widow a homestead exemption in her deceased husband's cooperative apartment, ruling that a cooperator has no proprietary interest in the apartment, the building, or the land on which the building is situated. The Georgia Supreme Court denied a homestead tax exemption to cooperators because they lacked the characteristics of ownership needed to bring them within the constitutional exemption …

From Washington To Arlington Heights And Beyond: Discriminatory Purpose In Equal Protection Litigation, Robert G. Schwemm

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

When the Supreme Court decided Washington v. Davis on June 7, 1976, it began a new era in civil rights law. Rejecting the contention that state action is unconstitutional solely because it operates to injure more blacks than whites, the Court held that proof of discriminatory purpose is necessary to establish a claim of racial discrimination under the equal protection clause. In two cases decided the following term—Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. and Castaneda v. Partida—the Court reaffirmed its commitment to the discriminatory purpose requirement, but was badly divided on how to apply the …

Procedural Due Process And The Section 8 Leased Housing Program, James M. Klein, John E. Schrider Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

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Forcible Detainer In Kentucky Under The Uniform Residential Landlord And Tenant Act, Thomas H. Watson

Kentucky Law Journal

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Book Review | Shelter And Subsidies: Who Benefits From Federal Housing Policies? By Henry J. Aaron (1972), Robert G. Schwemm

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This book review examines Shelter and Subsidies: Who Benefits from Federal Housing Policies? by Henry J. Aaron (1972).

Open Housing Meets My Old Kentucky Home: A Study Of Open Housing With Special Attention To Implications For Kentucky, Steven L. Beshear, Thomas L. Hindes, M. W. Schryver, Richard O. Stevenson

Kentucky Law Journal

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Constitutional Law--State Action--Real Estate Discrimination, Donald S. Muir

Kentucky Law Journal

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Housing: A Cursory Analysis Of Available Remedies With Particular Reference To The Anti-Trust Laws--Part Ii, G. E. Hale

Kentucky Law Journal

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Housing: A Cursory Analysis Of Available Remedies With Particular Reference To The Anti-Trust Laws, G. E. Hale

Kentucky Law Journal

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Slum Clearance And Redevelopment, Carl B. Wachs

Kentucky Law Journal

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Some Constitutional Aspects Of The Kentucky Municipal Housing Commission Act, Phillip Schiff

Kentucky Law Journal

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Housing Legislation In Kentucky, Byron Pumphrey

Kentucky Law Journal

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Housing Legislation In Kentucky (Cont.), Byron Pumphrey

Kentucky Law Journal

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