United States Second Circuit

District court correctly found disparate impact, intentional discrimination, and a failure to grant reasonable accommodation, in violation of both the Fair Housing Amendments Act and the ADA, where the City refused to classify a home for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts as a single family household, or to grant it a special-use exception.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/15/2003
• Published 12/15/2003

Judges

• WESLEY, Circuit Judge., Before:  POOLER, SACK, WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Sarah W. Poston, Zeldes, Needle & Cooper, P.C., Bridgeport, CT, (Jonathan B. Orleans on the brief) for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant., Thomas R. Gerarde, Howd & Ludorf, Hartford, CT, (Melinda A. Powell on the brief) for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Fire District., Martin S. Echter, New Haven, CT, for Defendant-Appellant City of West Haven.