United States v. J. Rogers Badgett, Sr., D/B/A Georgetown Apartments Jean Brittain

How courts have described this case

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• stating that HUD has adopted the McDonnell Douglas test for evaluating actions under the FHA
• concluding in housing-discrimination case that trial court “failed to apply the McDonnell Douglas standard [applicable to circumstantial evidence claims], and therefore erred as a matter of law”
• court will scrutinize any nongovernmental occupancy limit to determine whether it unreasonably limits or excludes persons with minor children
• “If the result of [a facially neutral occupancy] policy is a disparate impact on a protected class, facial neutrality will not save the restriction from violating the Act”
• “McDonnell Douglas test recognizes that direct proof of unlawful discrimination is rarely available”
• strongly indicating that disparate impact actions under the FHA are permissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).