Martin v. Constance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[The FHA] is intended to prohibit restrictive covenants ... which have the effect of excluding, for example, congregate living arrangements for persons with handicaps.”
• private citizens’ act of enforcing restrictive covenant to deny plaintiffs FHAA rights subjected them to liability under FHAA
• “[T]he Court finds that under the facts of this case the attempt to enforce the covenant constituted a refusal to make a reasonable accommodation . . . A reasonable accommodation would have been not to seek enforcement of the covenant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).