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Army base residents settle disability bias claim against contractor.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-DEC-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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In the first suit of its kind since the military privatized base housing, a group of military families with disabled members has settled with the private contractor that operated housing on their Army base over its practice of discrimination against people with disabilities. (Parents Against Disability Discrimination v. Equity Residential, No. C045267 RBL (W.D. Wash. Sept. 27, 2005).)

"The settlement is important because it's the first time someone has gone after private managers of military housing," said Roger Heller, plaintiff lead counsel and staff attorney with Disability Rights Advocates, a national nonprofit public-interest law center in Oakland, California.

"With so many military bases privatized now, this is going to be a big issue. Some of the...

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