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A fascinating analysis from Pennsylvania indicates that the state's mandated reporting law hasn't had the effect that legislators hoped.

The New York City ordinance banning discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations on the basis of an individual's height and weight is set to go into effect on November 22, 2023.

House Ed and Labor Committee Plans a Busy Week. Next week, subcommittees of the House Committee on Education & Labor will hold two hearings.

The new draft Equator Principles reflect and build upon the IFC Performance Standards’ requirement that companies obtain the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous peoples for development projects.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court contended that the Second Amendment did not apply to stun guns for three reasons.

The Trump administration announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuela, a program protecting over 600,000 Venezuelan migrants in the United States from deportation.

Many states recognize a "right of publicity," which prohibits the commercial use of an individual's name, likeness, or identity without consent.

On December 10, 2024, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) initiated an investigation of Nicaragua's acts, policies, and practices related to labor rights, human rights, and...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently considered a school's anti-bullying policy that prohibits "discriminatory harassment" based on gender identity.

On January 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided an appeal from a preliminary injunction that had blocked enforcement of Texas’ new abortion informed-consent statute.

A US federal district court in California decided that Facebooks lawsuit alleging that NSO Group technology was used to spy on thousands of WhatsApp users may proceed following NSOs motion to dismiss.

Withers partnered with Stanford Law School ("SLS") to file an amicus curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court on October 21, 2020 in support of victims of child slavery...

On November 12, 2018, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership ("CIPL") at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP published a legal note on the ePrivacy Regulation and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

I see this issue come up literally on a weekly basis now. A resident (or applicant) likely attempting to avoid pet fees and charges by claiming that a pet is actually a service animal.

As discussed regularly in this space (and elsewhere), the number of reasonable accommodation and/or reasonable modification requests continues to significantly increase each and every year.

I do not typically use my own active cases as examples here at the Fair Housing Defense blog, but a similar issue has come up in two of them (one on the east coast and one on the west coast) that I thought merited a post.

Citing a disproportionately high rate of arrest and incarceration among minorities, especially African Americans and Latinos, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development recently issued new guidance.