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Chicago Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law v. Craigslist, 519 F.3d 666 (7th Cir. 2008), [1] is a Seventh Circuit decision affirming a lower court ruling that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) provides immunity to Internet service providers that "publish" classified ads that violate the Fair Housing Act (FHA).
The Fair Housing Act was passed at the urging of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Congress passed the federal Fair Housing Act (codified at 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619, penalties for violation at 42 U.S.C. 3631) Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 only one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Hills v. Gautreaux, 425 U.S. 284 (1976), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court.. In this case, a number of Chicago families living in housing projects were awarded Section 8 vouchers allowing them to move to the suburbs in compensation for the housing project's substandard conditions.
(The Center Square) – Without going into details on who is going to pay for the ideas discussed, the Illinois Senate Human Rights Committee held a hearing Tuesday called “Housing as a Human ...
ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Governor JB Pritzker signed an executive order on Wednesday to help expand affordable housing for Illinoisians. The order will enlist agencies throughout the state to explore ...
Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp, 429 U.S. 252 (1977), was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States dealing with a zoning ordinance that in a practical way barred families of various socio-economic, and ethno-racial backgrounds from residing in a neighborhood. The Court held that the ordinance ...
Iqbal, ___ U.S. ___, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 173 L.Ed.2d 868 (2009), unless Iqbal is limited to cases in which there is a defense of official immunity — especially if as in that case it is asserted by very high-ranking officials (the Attorney General of the United States and the Director of the FBI) — because the defense is compromised if the ...
There, Aspen adjudicated a large-scale mortgage fraud case related to the 2000s housing bubble. In U.S. v. Board of Education of City of Chicago , No. 80-cv-5124, 621 F. Supp. 1296 (N.D. Ill. 1985), a school desegregation case, Aspen held that the government violated a consent decree that obliged Chicago Public Schools to desegregate.