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OHIO CIV. RIGHTS COMM. v. COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC.

No. 2002-0150.

99 Ohio St.3d 522 (2003)

2003-Ohio-4358

OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION, APPELLANT, v. COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC. ET AL., APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided September 3, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Petro, Attorney General, Douglas R. Cole, State Solicitor, Stephanie Bostos Demers, Duffy Jamieson and Marilyn Tobocman, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant.

Gressley, Kaplin & Parker and George James Conklin; Goodwin Proctor, L.L.P., John C. Englander, F. Dennis Saylor IV and Jennifer B. Brown, for appellees.

Cooper & Walinski, L.P.A., Stephen M. Dane and Janet E. Hales, urging reversal for amici curiae Eric and Vonda Williams, Toledo Fair Housing Center, Miami Valley Fair Housing Center, Fair Housing Advocates Association, the Housing Advocates, Fair Housing Contact Service, and Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Greater Cincinnati.

PFEIFER, J.

{¶ 1} On June 23, 1999, Eric and Vonda Williams filed a charge with the Chicago, Illinois office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD"). The charge alleged that appellees, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., and two alleged agents (collectively, "Countrywide"), engaged in sex discrimination and family-status discrimination by not considering Mrs. Williams's salary during the loan-application process because she was on maternity...

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