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Craigslist suit raises red flags: a recent legal suit brought against Craigslist highlights the confusion regarding fair housing law and individual apartment listings in online public forums.
Units, April, 2006 by Dolen, Rosmond Jones
In the advertising world, no space is used more than the virtual billboard of the Internet. With a click of a mouse, a person can get a car insurance quote, find a date, find a roommate or sell anything. With regard to rental housing advertisements, individuals have found a forum to publish exactly what they are looking for in a potential resident or "roommie," despite the fact that such posts could run afoul of fair housing laws.
Determining liability regarding violations of fair housing laws that prohibit discriminatory housing ads is problematic. The problem is this: There are two sources of conflicting law that pertain to both fair housing and Internet liability. In the fair housing corner, section 804(c) of the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) makes it...
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