As promised below is the greatest hits for the Understanding the ADA blog for 2025. Some of the entries that appear in the greatest hits section were not the greatest hits of 2025, but are so important that I keep them in there any way. Here goes the list for 2025 in reverse order of
Insurance Policies for Landlords Containing Breed Restrictions for ESA/Service Animals Can Violate the Fair Housing Act
By William Goren on
Today’s blog entry come to me courtesy of Clinical Law Professor Leonard Sandler of the University of Iowa, and deals with the question of whether there is an FHA violation when an insurance company allegedly refuses to insure a landlord because the ESA owned by the tenant was one of the prohibited breeds contained in…
Roadmap for Dealing with Emotional Support Animals Matters
By William Goren on
Posted in ADA, Fair Housing Act, General, Guidances, State Cases, State Statutes, Title II, Title III
This may very well be a week with two blog entries for three reasons. First, there is the blog that will be the subject of this blog entry. Second, if I have this figured right, this is the last week that the Supreme Court has for issuing opinions before their summer recess. I am particularly…
Standing and the FHA
By William Goren on
Posted in Fair Housing Act, Federal Cases
We have been on a bit of a roll discussing standing lately, so I thought why not continue it, albeit with a different law. Today, let’s look at the Fair Housing Act (FHA). The case of the day is Brown v. Suri Hurley, LLC, here, from the Eastern District of California cited on June…
Service Dogs v. Emotional Support Animals
By William Goren on
One of the confusing issues out there is the difference between a service dog, emotional support animal, and a therapy dog and why it matters. 28 C.F.R. § 35.104 and 28 C.F.R. § 36.104 (the sections of the federal regulation that apply to service animals for public entities and for places of public accommodations respectively),…