Assessing special needs; in fair-housing suits, tenants claim disabilities entitle them to anything from parking to pets

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The real watershed in the law governing the housing of disabled tenants came with the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, which barred discrimination against tenants in private apartments and condominiums. Now all landlords must extend reasonable accommodations to disabled tenants, and before this act only federal housing projects were barred from discriminating against the disabled. Lawyers are now seeing many cases of first impression, and the cost of accommodation is always an issue for landlords.

Housing, Disabled persons, Housing discrimination

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Increased exposure for HMOs: Texas law allows patients to sue; health plans will wage pre-emption battle

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The Texas Legislature has passed a law making HMOs subject to the ordinary care standard when determining whether a medical procedure is covered. The HMOs are contesting the law, charging that ERISA preempts it and that the law will just raise the cost of health care plans. The law only allows the patient or family to recover the cost of the test. HMOs see this law as an attempt to give patients a deep-pocket defendant and doctors a way to challenge low-cost medicine.

Laws, regulations and rules, Texas, Malpractice, Patients, Health maintenance organizations, Tort liability, Tort liability of insurance companies, Insurance companies

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Crazy talk; diverse views of jurors, shrinks may hamper Kaczynski defense

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Studies suggest jurors do not accept the view that insane people can also be cunning and methodical, and this bodes ill for getting jury members in the trial of alleged Unabomber Ted Kaczynski to accept the insanity defense. Over three-quarters of insanity defense cases were just heard by a judge, and only seven percent by a jury, according to studies. In insanity acquittals, 82% of defendants had had one or more psychiatric hospitalizations.

Usage, Insanity defense, Kaczynski, Theodore, Mail bombings

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