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Showing posts with label fourth amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fourth amendment. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 05, 2023

05 Jul

Is the NYS Source of Income (Section 8) Anti-Discrimination Law Unconstitutional? NYS Supreme Court Seems to Think so

NYS law is that the refusal to rent or lease based on "lawful source of income" constitutes actionable discrimination under Executive Law 296(5)(a)(1). Now, the Hon. Mark  G. Masler of the State Supreme Court, County of Tompkins, in James v. Commons West, LLC, et al., has found this anti-discrimination law to...