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Suit: Ban on service animals violates Fair Housing Act

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A Lindenhurst apartment complex has violated the Fair Housing Act by excluding disabled people with service animals from renting, the federal government charged in a lawsuit released Thursday.

On three separate occasions, according to the federal complaint, fair housing investigators from Long Island Housing Services in Bohemia posing as would-be renters were rejected when they told managers...

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