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Subsection (c) was intended to prevent "discriminatory advertisements" both by "newspapers as well as any other publishing medium."
And in that 104 The Government took this line of argument when the Fair Housing Act was tested for the first time in its provision on discrimination in advertising.
- in The Supreme Court Review and 11 similar citations
Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 USC § 3601 et seq.) is an appropriate and constitutionally permissible exercise of Congressional power under the Thirteenth Amendment to bar all racial discrimination, private as well as public, in the sale and rental of real property.
A statement violates 42 USC § 3604 (c) if the statement, when heard by an ordinary reader, would conclude that the rule suggests a preference.
“Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” US CONST. amend. XIII, §§ 1-2.
An example of the first, the publication of a classified advertisement for a "private white home," was held violative of Section 3604 (c) by the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Accordingly, code words which achieve the connotative effect of communicating such discrimination may be dealt with as discriminatory, even where the denotative meaning of the words or phrases in issue is an innocent one
- in Times Co. v. City of New York, 1977 and 7 similar citations
" `[A] violation [of the federal Fair Housing Act] is proven if `[t] o an ordinary reader the natural interpretation of the advertisements... is that they indicate a... preference in the acceptance of tenants.'"
- in Com. v. Lotz Realty Co., Inc., 1989 and 6 similar citations
The Fair Housing Act was designed to provide fair housing throughout the nation and is a valid exercise of congressional power under the Thirteenth Amendment to eliminate the badges and incidents of slavery.
- in Morgan v. Parcener's Ltd., 1978 and 4 similar citations
Also, there is no claim that the transactions proposed in the forbidden advertisements are themselves illegal in any way.

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