Court Opinion

ID: 9481495
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:20:49.498025+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:21.367054
License: Public Domain

*724HENDERSON, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the majority’s conclusions and, in large part, in its analysis but I see no need for any discussion of a purported “sole source” theory of liability. Clifton Terrace did not rely on such a theory and our rejection of the Fair Housing Act claim in no way depends on it. That claim cannot be asserted under subsection 3604(a) or (f)(1) because, as the majority states, these provisions “reach only discrimination which adversely affects the availability of housing,” while withholding of elevator service “is a matter of habitability, not availability.” Subsections 3604(b) and (f)(2), on the other hand, are unavailing because Otis is not among the intended objects of these provisions, namely, as the majority describes them, “those who provide housing and then discriminate in the provision of attendant services or facilities, or those who otherwise control the provision of housing servicés or facilities.” Accordingly, I abstain from the majority’s treatment of “sole source.”