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DILIDDO v. OXFORD STREET REALTY, INC.

450 Mass. 66 (2007)

LORI DILIDDO v. OXFORD STREET REALTY, INC., & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

November 15, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zaheer A. Samee (Robert G. Burdick with him) for the plaintiff.

Christian G. Samito for the defendants.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Jane E. Willis, Chanel R. Dalal, James W. Cobb, & Nadine Cohen for The Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston, Inc.

Caitlin A. Sheehan for Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

Susan Ann Silverstein & Michael Schuster, of the District of Columbia, & Jonathan Mannina, Faye Rachlin, & Alan Jay Rom for AARP & another.

Martha Coakley, Attorney General, & Maura T. Healey & Zoë Stark, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, & CORDY, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

Massachusetts law prohibits landlords from discriminating against tenants who receive public housing subsidies either "because the individual is such a recipient," or "because of any requirement" of the subsidy program. G. L. c. 151B, § 4 (10).2 We consider in this case whether, consistent with that statute, a landlord may refuse to rent an apartment to a participant in a subsidy program for temporary housing because...

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