Oh loady loady, it's even worse than I've been saying. Here's a bad one
for sure, & alas it applies FEDERALLY:

In Meyer vs Holy, the Supreme Court made a unanimous & unfortunate
clarification regarding HOA discrimination against minorities. The Supreme
Court found that damages cannot be recovered from any officer or owner
within a HOA whose agents or volunteers are in conflict with the Fair
Housing Act refusing as a matter of policy to sell to Jews, blacks, or
other minorities.

Despite efforts of recent legislation especially in California & Florida &
in a few other places to make the Fair Housing Act apply to HOAs, a case
finally makes it to the Supreme Court & they once again confirm methods by
which HOAs to be now what they have always been in the past, racist &
discriminatory! One might sue to change the language of a charter or
covenant, without effecting deeds. Only if a corporate officer personally
involves himself in the discrimination is there even a slim chance of
prosecution -- any agent or volunteer acting for the HOA, by contrast, is
now protected against litigation. So the racist status quo wins again!
The government gets to boast about having the Fair Housing Act, but honky
rednecks in their HOA enclaves can go on doing as they please.

The Supreme Court decision overturned a federal appeals court ruling that
applied the full letter of the Fair Housing Act even to HOAs. Civil Rights
inroads again reversed by conservatives!

-paghat the ratgirl

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"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
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