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COUNTY OF DANE v. NORMAN

No. 91-0486.

174 Wis.2d 683 (1993)

497 N.W.2d 714

COUNTY OF DANE a municipal corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dwight NORMAN and Patricia Norman, Defendants-Respondents-Petitioners.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided April 13, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendants-respondents-petitioners there were briefs by Michael J. Lawton, David E. Rohrer and Lathrop & Clark, Madison.

For the plaintiff-appellant the cause was submitted on the brief of Margaret L. O'Donnell, assistant corporation counsel, with whom on the briefs was Cal W. Kornstedt, corporation counsel.

STEINMETZ, J.

The issue in this case is whether Dwight Norman discriminated against potential tenants on the basis of "marital status," contrary to Chapter 31 of the Dane county ordinances, when he refused to rent a three-bedroom duplex to two groups of potential tenants, on separate occasions, on the ground that his policy as a landlord is not to rent to groups of unrelated individuals seeking to live together. One group seeking to rent Norman's property consisted...

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