Township of West Orange v. Whitman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiffs’ proposed “discrete class”—residents in the neighborhoods “immediately surrounding” group homes for people with mental illnesses—could not be distinguished from the public at large
• describing 42 U.S.C. § 3604[f][9] direct threat exception as “an affirmative defense available to landlords”
• same, in the context of proximity to a home for those with mental illness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).