Legal Opinion
Kitten v. State Department of Workforce Development
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided May 24, 2002No. 00-3562PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJon E Wilcox, J.
¶ 1. In this case, we review a court of appeals decision, Kitten v. DWD, 2001 WI App 218, 247 Wis. 2d 661, 634 N.W.2d 583, which affirmed the administrative ruling of Department of Workforce Development (DWD) hearing examiner Alice E. DeLaO. The hearing examiner concluded that Donald R. Kitten had violated the Wisconsin Open Housing Act (WOHA), Wis. Stat. § 106.04 (1997-98) 1 , when he discriminated against the complainant, Spencer Cenname, on the basis of a perceived disability.
¶ 2. Cenname sought to rent an apartment from Kitten. When Kitten found out that Cenname had previously been…
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