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Sample Legal Issue
There is a miniature pony named Paddington (Paddy) lying quietly on the floor of your office. Paddy and his owner, Libby Bozeman, are on the verge of being evicted from the house in which they live in Missoula . Libby has lived in a large rental house in the lower Rattlesnake for several years. The owner of the house has a "no pets" policy. Last year Libby was hiking and was caught in a rockslide. The event left her blind. Libby now needs a guide-animal, and as part of her rehabilitation, she took part in a program where she was matched with a guide-horse. Paddy is specially trained to serve as a guide-animal and to live in a house. He is clean, quiet and has not damaged anything in the house or the yard. Nevertheless, Libby's landlord insists that Libby has violated the "no pets" policy and has threatened to evict her and Paddy. Libby argued that as a guide-horse, Paddy is not a pet, but her landlord still says they have to move.
The Fair Housing Amendments Act prohibits discrimination against disabled persons when renting housing and requires a landlord to make reasonable accommodation . Your specific question at the moment is: Is Libby Bozeman's landlord violating the reasonable accommodation provision in federal fair housing law by refusing to waive the " no pets " policy and allow Libby to keep Paddy
Sources
- Findlaw Legal Dictionary
- search terms: reasonable accommodation
- Am. Jur. 2d Legal Encyclopedia
- Westlaw database: amjur
- select: Directory, All Am Jur Library, American Jurisprudence 2d
- search type: Natural Language
- search terms: "fair housing" "reasonable accommodation" "guide dog"("service animal")
- United States Code Annotated
- Westlaw database: usca
- select: Directory, Westlaw PRO Primary Law Library, Federal Materials, Statutes, United States Code Annotated
- search type: Natural Language
- search terms: "fair housing" "reasonable accommodation" "guide dog"("service animal")
- Montana Code Annotated
- Westlaw database: mt-st-ann
- select: Directory, Westlaw PRO Primary Law Library, State Materials, Statutes & Legislative Services, Statutes & Legislative Services - Individual States, Montana, Montana Statutes Annotated
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search type: Natural Language
- search terms: "housing discrimination"
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- Montana Code Annotated
- select: Search
- search terms: housing discrimination
- Federal and State Case Law
- Westlaw database: allcases OR allfeds OR mt-cs
- search type: Natural Language
- search terms: "fair housing" "reasonable accommodation" "guide dog"("service animal")
- Law Review Articles
- Index to Legal Periodicals
- search type: Smart Search
- search terms: housing discrimination and reasonable accommodation
- Hein Online
- Use to get full-text of articles identified by using Index to Legal Periodicals
- select: Law Journal Library
- enter volume, title & page in Citation Navigator
- Westlaw
- database: lawrev-pro
- select: Directory, Journals and Law Reviews, Journals and Law Reviews PRO
- search type: Natural Language
- search terms: "fair housing" "reasonable accommodation" "guide dog"("service animal")
- Treatises
- Use Library Catalog
- search type: Advanced Search
- search terms: housing discrimination (all of these, keyword)
- post limit: Missoula:UM-LAW
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