COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS v. SULLIVAN

No. 17594.

939 A.2d 541 (2008)

285 Conn. 208

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES et al. v. Michael SULLIVAN et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided January 22, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wesley W. Horton, Hartford, with whom were James H. Lee, Fairfield, and Kenneth J. Bartschi, Hartford, for the appellants (defendants).

Cheryl A. Sharp, assistant commission counsel, for the appellees (plaintiffs).

Sarah W. Poston, Bridgeport, for the appellee (relator Dennisse Colon).

Amy Eppler-Epstein, Naugatuck, filed a brief for the New Haven Legal Assistance Association et al. as amici curiae.

Joseph D. Rich, Washington, DC, and Nicole Birch filed a brief for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law et al. as amici curiae.

ROGERS, C.J., and KATZ, VERTEFEUILLE, ZARELLA and SCHALLER, Js.


SCHALLER, J.

In this housing discrimination action, the defendants, Michael Sullivan and Robert Sullivan, appeal1 from the judgment of the trial court in favor of the plaintiffs, the commission on human rights and opportunities (commission) and Dennisse Colon, concluding that the defendants unlawfully had discriminated against Colon, a prospective tenant, on the basis of a lawful source of income in violation of General Statutes §...

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