Another Friday, another dump of outrageous press releases from the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, thanks to its leadership under race-baiting radical Thomas Perez. This one particularly stood out.
Under the terms of the consent decree, filed today in federal court in Scranton, Pa., defendants Gerard Joyce, Katie Joyce, Daniel Joyce, Normandy Holdings LLC, Lofts at the Mill LP and Lofts GP LLC, are required to pay $35,000 in monetary relief to two victims of discrimination and to the United States.The department’s complaint, which originated from an investigation by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), alleged that the owners, property managers and management company for "The Mill" luxury apartments violated the Fair Housing Act by refusing to rent apartments to persons with children and by advertising discriminatory, "21 years or older," tenant policies in multiple Scranton newspapers. On Nov. 16, 2009, the court granted the United States’ motion for summary judgment on liability.
The Fair Housing Act does forbid housing discrimination, but I'm not sure banning 16-year-olds was what they had in mind. The Mill apartments don't allow children specifically because they're geared toward recent college graduates and are attempting to attract a younger crowd. The lawsuit has been settled and The Mill has agreed to pay a total of $35,000 in penalties. They learned the lesson the hard way: In Barack Obama's America, you don't have the right to do business your own way.
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