Jury awards $850,000 in fair housing case
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The US District Court for the District of Columbia has awarded damages for racial discrimination in a real estate developer's advertising. The Fair Housing Council of Greater Washington, the Metropolitan Washington Planning and Housing Assn and law professor Girardeau A. Spann sued over 40 developers and advertising firms for using their ads to 'steer' buyers by race to certain neighborhoods. Most of the developers and firms settled and altered their advertising. Colonial Village changed its ads but did not settle, arguing that the plaintiffs had no standing to sue and that the suit should be dismissed.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1992
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Appeals courts split on fair housing cases
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The US Courts of Appeal for the 2d, 4th, and 6th Circuits have all been presented with cases that question whether newspapers can be held liable for running real estate advertisements that violate the Fair Housing Act. The 2d Circuit ruled that newspapers could be sued, but the 6th Circuit ruled that newspapers could not be responsible for ads that as a group appeared discriminatory but individually were not. The 4th Circuit is to hear a case regarding a series of ads by one real estate firm in a newspaper, but the paper is not being sued.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1992
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Appeals court cuts more of fairness doctrine
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The US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has affirmed the 1989 District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling that the FCC has the authority to abolish the fairness doctrine. The AFL-CIO in Arkansas challenged the FCC's abolishment of the doctrine in regard to ballot initiatives, but the court upheld the FCC's decision. Section 315, added to the Communications Act of 1934 in 1959, did not make the fairness doctrine law, the court stated.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1993
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