housing discrimination

  • Civil Rights Legal Experts Condemn Trump’s New Executive Orders Targeting Disparate Impact Protections

    The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is sounding the alarm over a series of new executive orders issued by the Trump administration. The respected organization is calling the new EOs a direct attack on decades of hard-fought civil rights protections. Legal experts from the organization have sharply criticized the measures, which they say…

  • Justice Department Sues Illinois Landlord for Sexually Harassing Tenants

    The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Michael J. DeWitte, a landlord from Washington, Illinois, accusing him of sexually harassing female tenants and housing applicants in violation of the Fair Housing Act. DeWitte has managed residential rental properties in Peoria and other central Illinois counties since at least 2002. “Landlords…