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Marya v. Slakey
Citation:
190 F. Supp. 2d 95 (2001)Facts
Defendant Slakey owned a six-bedroom residential property that she leased to six unrelated individuals under annual joint and several leases. The tenants historically assumed responsibility for advertising vacancies and selecting new tenants through unanimous vote, though the lease reserved Slakey’s right to approve or reject candidates. Between 1993 and 1999, approximately twenty different tenants resided there, and Slakey never rejected any applicant chosen by her tenants. In August 1998, plaintiff Aurora, an Indian graduate student who met the traditional criteria of being a student, vegetarian, and non-smoker, applied for a vacancy. Tenant Norris rejected her application, explicitly stating on three separate occasions that he did not want three Indian women in the house and did not want one culture to dominate. When other tenants informed Slakey of Norris’s discriminatory reasoning and requested intervention, Slakey initially stated Norris had the right to decide who he wanted to live with, then said she would speak with Norris, but ultimately declined to involve herself further in the selection process.
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