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PLAINTIFF CONDOMINIUM OWNER STATED A CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST THE CONDOMINIUM DEFENDANTS FOR VIOLATION OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT 2ND DEPT.

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff had stated a cause of action for violation of the Fair Housing Act. Plaintiff, a condominium owner, alleged she was denied access to common areas of the defendants’ (Vista’s) condominium complex because of her ethnicity:

The Supreme Court … erred in granting that branch of the Vista defendants’ motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3211(a) to dismiss the third cause of action to recover damages for housing discrimination in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act (42 USC § 3601 et seq.) insofar as asserted against them. That statute provides, in relevant part, that “it shall be unlawful . . . [t]o discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions, or privileges of sale or rental of a dwelling, or in the provision of services or facilities in connection therewith, because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin” (42 USC § 3604[b]). At the motion to dismiss stage, all that is required are sufficiently pleaded allegations that plaintiffs are part of a protected class and that defendants took actions against them that are forbidden by the Fair Housing Act on the basis of their membership in the protected class … . In this case, the complaint alleged, inter alia, that the Vista defendants discriminated against the plaintiff and her family “in an effort to prevent [them] from utilizing the facilities upon the common area,” and that the Vista defendants had engaged in a pattern of discrimination against the plaintiff and her family because they are of Hispanic descent. Accepting these allegations as true, and affording the plaintiff the benefit of every possible favorable inference, the complaint adequately stated a cause of action to recover damages for housing discrimination in violation of the Federal Fair Housing Act (42 USC § 3601 et seq.) insofar as asserted against the Vista defendants. Gutierrez v McGrath Mgt. Servs., Inc., 2017 NY Slip Op 05425, 2nd Dept 7-5-17

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