Legal Opinion
Cabrera v. Fischler
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 17, 1993No. CV 87-2675 (ADS)PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER
SPATT, District Judge.
In this class action, a jury determined that the defendants, who are landlords and real estate brokers, discriminated against two of the three individual black and hispanic plaintiffs and two other black individuals who had inquired about renting apartments in Brooklyn. The jury awarded the successful individual plaintiffs nominal damages and the plaintiff Open Housing Center compensatory and punitive damages against each defendant except the defendant-landlord Benjamin Breitman, against whom the jury declined to award even nominal damages.
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2Cases cited70 opinions
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- Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Carey v. PiphusSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Luciano v. Olsten Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1997
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- Cobell v. NortonDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2005
- Finkel v. Universal Electric Corp.District Court, E.D. New York · 2013
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