Some short excerpts from yesterday's long decision by Seventh Circuit Judge Joshua Kolar, joined by Chief Judge Michael Brennan, in Farhan v. 2715 NMA LLC:

Manal Farhan is a Palestinian American who flew a Palestinian flag in her apartment window. Defendants, the owner and operator of her apartment building, told her to take the flag down pursuant to a policy that the building would stay "neutral" amidst the Israel-Palestine conflict. Farhan refused and defendants terminated her tenancy. She then sued under the Fair Housing Act ("FHA") and several state laws, alleging discrimination based on national origin….

Farhan pursued a novel and unsupported theory of liability under the FHA: that defendants' application of a "neutrality" policy requiring her, a Palestinian American, to remove a Pa

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