FRANCIS v. KINGS PARK MANOR, INC.

Docket No. 15-1823-cv August Term, 2015

917 F.3d 109 (2019)

Donahue FRANCIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KINGS PARK MANOR, INC., Corrine Downing, Defendants-Appellees, Raymond Endres, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Final Submission: November 22, 2016.

Decided: March 4, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sasha Samberg-Champion ( Yiyang Wu , John P. Relman , on the brief), Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Melissa Corwin ( Stanley J. Somer , on the brief), Somer, Heller & Corwin LLP, Commack, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Vanita Gupta , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Jennifer Levin Eichhorn , Sharon McGowan , Thomas Chandler , United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC; Tonya T. Robinson , Acting General Counsel, Michelle Aronowitz , Deputy General Counsel for Enforcement and Fair Housing, Kathleen Pennington , M. Casey Weissman-Vermeulen , Alexandria Lippincott , U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United States of America. Susan Ann Silverstein , AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae AARP.

Judge Livingston dissents by separate opinion.


Just over fifty years ago, spurred by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Congress enacted Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act of 1968 ("FHA" or "Act"), 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq., a landmark piece of civil rights legislation that...

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