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March 2011: A federal court recently ordered a Michigan property owner and his former manager to pay a total of $82,500 in civil penalties—on top of the $115,000 jury verdict previously awarded—in a sexual harassment case under the Fair Housing Act, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
February 2011: Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that an Alabama community owner and his employees agreed to pay more than $15,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming that they violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by making discriminatory statements against African-American applicants.
January 2011: Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a $1.25 million settlement with the owner and managers of a 196-unit Alabama community to resolve allegations that it violated fair housing law by refusing to grant a resident’s requests for a reasonable accommodation. The settlement is the largest ever obtained by the department in an individual housing discrimination case, according to federal officials.
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