Seattle Ordinance Requiring Acceptance of First Qualified Tenant Struck Down By Court

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | March 29, 2018

No. 1,456

A judge in Seattle struck down the city ordinance requiring a landlord to accept the first qualified tenant, involving a legal theory known as the “implicit bias rule.”

The court recognized that dealings between a landlord and tenant  involve a long-term contractual relationship.  A variety of non-discriminatory factors may enter into the decision-making process on both sides.  Here is a statement the attorneys for the landlords in that case released on Twitter.

PLBT reported the filing of the case in December 2017 against the ordinance in Post No. 1,379.

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