Monday, September 22, 2008

Ohio Southern District Fair Housing/Sex Disrimination settlement....?

Victims of a former Forest Park, Ohio landlord achieved a potentially major victory last week in the largest sex discrimination case in the history of the Fair Housing Act, but they may never see a dime of their victory, according to an article in last Friday’s Enquirer, because the defendant in that case has “no asstes.”

U.S. Southern Ohio District Judge Susan Dlott, who oversaw the almost $1 million settlement, rebuked Justice Department lawyers, according to the article, for putting out misleading information earlier this month. “Doesn’t the government know, in fact, that this man has no assets and that this money will not be paid? Isn’t it already known that he is arrears on a criminal fine?” she asked
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