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Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
Ballard's Reisman Argues to Protect Developers from Onslaught of Fair Housing Lawsuits in Ninth Circuit En Banc Hearing
April 26th, 2008
In a case of national importance to the multi-family-housing industry and disabled rights organizations, Josh Reisman, a partner in the Las Vegas office of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, argued, on March 25, on behalf of developers before an eleven-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Court's atypical en banc hearing of Garcia v. Brockway addressed a Fair Housing Act (FHA) case that could impact virtually every multi-family housing development built since 1991. The defendant, a principal of an apartment complex built in 1997, was recently sued by a disabled citizens' rights organization for alleged design-and-construction violations of the...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-04-26)
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