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Justice Department settlement gives new power to campuses over emotional support animals
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.30126
Subject(s) - residence , settlement (finance) , government (linguistics) , economic justice , flexibility (engineering) , power (physics) , emotional support , law , psychology , public relations , political science , sociology , business , social psychology , management , finance , economics , social support , linguistics , philosophy , physics , demography , quantum mechanics , payment
The Justice Department and the University of Nebraska at Kearney recently settled their Fair Housing Act emotional support animal litigation with a court‐approved consent judgment. The court judgment sets a legal precedent, providing campus residence halls more flexibility in assessing student claims for emotional support animals. For the first time, the government has acknowledged that campus residence halls are different from traditional single‐family apartments, and that the differences sometimes may justify refusing a particular request to keep an emotional support animal in certain housing.