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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES ET AL. v. MICHAEL SULLIVAN ET AL. (SC 17594)
Rogers, C. J., and Katz, Vertefeuille, Zarella and Schaller, Js. Argued September 5, 2007--officially released January 22, 2008

Wesley W. Horton, with whom were James H. Lee and Kenneth J. Bartschi, for the appellants (defendants). Cheryl A. Sharp, assistant commission counsel, for the appellees (plaintiffs). Sarah W. Poston, for the appellee (relator Dennisse Colon). Amy Eppler-Epstein filed a brief for the New Haven Legal Assistance Association et al. as amici curiae. Joseph D. Rich and Nicole Birch filed a brief for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law et al. as amici curiae.

Opinion

SCHALLER, J. In this housing discrimination action, the defendants, Michael Sullivan and Robert Sullivan, appeal1 from the judgment of the trial court in favor of the plaintiffs, the commission on human rights and opportunities (commission) and Dennisse Colon, concluding that the defendants unlawfully had discriminated against Colon, a prospective tenant, on the basis of a lawful source of income in violation of General Statutes

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