· 3/4/1974
Mendota Apartments v. District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights
Citations
- 315 A.2d 832
- 1974 D.C. App. LEXIS 379
How courts have described this case
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- opining “the authority to order a respondent to ‘take such affirmative action . . .’ did not include the authority to award civil damages”
- upholding Commission on Human Rights order that petitioner cease and desist from racial discrimination in the rental of apartments (\refusing to lease an apartment to [complainant] because she is a Negro\
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Judges: Fickling, Harris, Hood
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