—the court held that failure to commence suit under the Act within 180 days following the occurrence of the alleged discriminatory practices (as required by § 812) or within 60 days after filing of a complaint with HUD (as required by § 810) precludes suit under the Act.

Other courts have ruled that the complainant has 180 days in which to commence the HUD action and 60 days thereafter to file

Thus the federal district courts need not be burdened with cases which they expect to be settled by HUD, but complainants need not wait long periods of time before being allowed to enforce their claims in court.

Moreover, other sections of the federal Fair Housing Act clearly indicate that Congress contemplated private civil actions and administrative claims to be contemporaneous.

Where an action instituted by blacks alleging that they were not permitted to rent apartments because of their race was commenced more than sixty days after charges were filed with HUD, action could not be maintained under this section.

—an action to be maintainable in district court under § 3610, the plaintiff must have (1) filed a complaint with the Secretary charging a violation of the Fair Housing Act within one hundred eighty days after the discriminatory act allegedly occurred and (2) brought the civil action under consideration within the thirty day period commencing on the thirty-first day after the …

At least one liberal court has suggested, in a housing discrimination case, that the bounds of the class need not be precisely drawn at the start of the action, since discovery procedures may be used to delineate the boundaries of the class later.

Determining whether an established fact is "reasonably related to the purposes of sentencing" is a matter of statutory interpretation, and therefore a matter of law, not fact

Where an agent discriminates as a result of direct instructions from his principal, the responsibility of the principal for such acts is even more clearly established, but the agent is, of course, still liable for his own unlawful conduct.

—declared that a clear majority of cases have held that sections 3610 and 3612 are alternative remedies.