The Fair Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination based on religion, including bias against members of a certain religion, as well actions that have discriminatory effects on religious people. For example, United States v. Hillman Housing Corporation was resolved through a consent decree ...

From the time of its original passage, the Fair Housing Act has prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, color, religion and national origin. As explained by the United States Department of Justice, one ...

FAIR HOUSING ACT EFFECTS ON REAL ESTATE The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to “refuse to sell… after the making of a bona fide offer, or to refuse to negotiate for the sale… or otherwise make unavailable or deny, ...

Prior to the passage of the Fair Housing Act, housing discrimination was an extensive problem in the United States, resulting in segregated minority communities throughout the country. The Act was created to help alleviate some of these issues and provide ...

The Fair Housing Act is the name given to Title 8 of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, the act prohibits discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, ...

Because a trademark provides a business owner with a limited monopoly over the use of a protected mark, a trademark search is one of the most important initial steps when choosing a new business name, brand name or logo.  Trademark ...

Introduction Mergers and acquisitions are the legal mechanisms by which companies join forces to create new, hopefully more efficient, organizations. An acquisition occurs when one company acquires 100% of another, non-related company. The company being acquired is the “target company” ...

The most limited level of review to which a law can be subjected under Equal Protection analysis is "rational basis" review. This standard of review is applied when the classification in the law is “nonsuspect”. At this level, great deference ...

We previously saw that substantive due process claims are split into two categories, those involving fundamental rights, discussed above, and those involving non-fundamental rights. If the category of fundamental rights involves those rights concerning autonomy and privacy, the category of ...

A state may fire an employee from a government job, sentence a criminal convict to prison, revoke a prisoner’s parole or discontinue welfare benefits. The Due Process clause does not necessarily prohibit such actions. Rather, it requires that fair procedures ...