Gray v. Serruto Builders, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that Director of Civil Rights Division has authority to award damages for emotional distress caused by racial discrimination in residential leasing
• ruling that Director of Civil Rights Division has authority to award damages for emotional distress caused by racial discrimination in residential leasing
• recovery allowed because emotional distress was proximately caused by racial discrimination
• court reasoned that because State Constitution, Article I, paragraphs 1 and 5, barred discrimination on the basis of race, grievant could seek a judicial remedy against landlord for discrimination entailed in the refusal to rent him an apartment on the basis of his race
• right to be free from racial discrimination

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