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We will pursue fair housing class actions and individual fair housing cases with substantial damages.
Types of Cases
- Discrimination in providing housing based on race, religion, national origin, gender or disability
- Slum Housing Conditions
Sample Cases
- McClure v. City of Long Beach - $22.5 Million jury verdict (exclusive of attorney’s fees) in fair housing case against City of Long Beach for preventing six group homes for the handicapped from opening; attorney’s fee and post-trial motions pending) (2004);
- Fair Housing Foundation v. City of Lakewood - retaliation case against city for FHF’s activities in support of tenants suing landlord, this was the first case to grant standing to a Fair Housing Provider to sue on behalf of the community it serves. Walker v. City of Lakewood, 263 F.3d 1005 (9th Cir. 2001).
- Hernandez v. Avol - $2.5 Million settlement, plus a separate award of attorney’s fees action, on behalf of approximately 350 slum housing residents (1988);
- Hernandez v. Lee - $1.9 Million settlement in class action on behalf of tenants of numerous buildings for slum conditions (1998);
- PIN v. HACLA - $1.3 Million settlement plus comprehensive structural action against Housing Authority of Los Angeles for discrimination in failing to provide adequate security for isolated minorities in housing developments (1988);
- Zuniga v. Los Angeles Housing Authority - $1.4 Million settlement and published appellate decision (41 Cal.App.4th 2) holding Housing Authority responsible for injuries to tenants after notice that tenants were being victimized on the premises and failing to take reasonable measures to prevent injuries (1995);
- People of the State of California v. Highland Federal Savings and Loan - $3.165 Million settlement in class action on behalf of the People of the State of California and a class of tenants residing in slum buildings in Los Angeles for financing practices encouraging and perpetuating slum conditions (1993);
- Mould v. Investments Concept, Inc. - $850,000 settlement for the class plus comprehensive consent decree regarding the defendants’ discriminatory policies and practices in a race discrimination class action on behalf of a class of applicants and potential housing applicants (1992).
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