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Consider your campus housing policy on emotional support animals in light of legal claims
Author(s) -
Masinter Michael R.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
disability compliance for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-8001
pISSN - 1086-1335
DOI - 10.1002/dhe.30086
Subject(s) - institution , economic justice , emotional support , psychology , anxiety , depression (economics) , emotional stress , emotional and behavioral disorders , criminology , law , political science , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , social support , reading (process) , economics , macroeconomics , dyslexia
In 2011, the Justice Department sued the University of Nebraska at Kearney and several of its officials under the Fair Housing Act. DOJ alleged two basic claims — the defendants unlawfully denied requests by two students to permit emotional support animals in campus housing as accommodations for depression, anxiety and post‐traumatic stress disorder, and the institution had a pattern and practice of disability discrimination against students seeking to live with emotional support animals as accommodations for psychiatric disabilities.