Jerome Seaton and Gladys Seaton, His Wife v. Sky Realty Company, Inc.

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• holding that compensatory damages may be awarded for humiliation, either inferred from circumstances or established by testimony, and that medical evidence of mental or emotional impairment is not necessary to sustain such an award
• authorizing compensatory damages under the FHA, 42 U. S. C. § 3612, the predecessor to § 3613, for humiliation
• punitive damage award justified under § 1983 for discriminatory and irrational behavior by state-court judge
• action under § 1982 and 42 U.S.C. 3604; damages for humiliation based upon discriminatory refusal to negotiate sale of realty
• humiliation reasonably inferred in a housing discrimination case since plaintiff \was subjected to a racial indignity which is one of the relics of slavery\
• \Humiliation can be inferred from the circumstances\ following a discriminatory refusal to lease housing.

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