Judge Awards $200K to Deceased Tenant, Ending Discrimination Lawsuit Against Landlord

A lawsuit that accused a landlord of violating the federal Fair Housing Act recent settled for more than $200,000. The suit itself was filed by a now deceased tenant, Carolyn McGuffin, back in April 2016 against “landlord Carolyn Smitley and the Smitley Family Trust alleging they discriminated against McGuffin because she was sick.” The settlement was reached earlier this month when a federal judge ruled in McGuffin’s favor, awarding her $219,747.75.




Trump Turns Attention from Undocumented Immigrants to Stripping Citizenship From the Naturalized

The Trump administration has been unusually harsh on immigrants, whether legal or undocumented. But over the course of the past month, the federal government’s begun works on a taskforce to strip citizenship from Americans who may have cheated in their naturalization applications. Alisha Chang, host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” observes that “naturalization ceremonies carry