Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook
Civil Rights
Fair Housing and State Actions
Federal and state housing discrimination laws place rigorous requirements upon apartment owners, commercial and residential landowners, property management companies, realtors, brokers, manufactured home communities and sales offices. We routinely advise clients with respect to fair housing civil right matters--including rental and selling policies, practices, advertisements, reasonable accommodations and design and construction requirements.
We also defend clients who have had claims brought against them alleging violation of the Fair Housing Act and Michigan's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. Typically, these claims include allegations of discriminatory rental conduct, availability of dwellings, block busting, redlining and other discriminatory real estate related transactions.
42 USC Section 1983 Actions
Municipalities and organizations working under the cloak of governmental authority commonly face claims of Title 42 USC Section 1983 civil rights violations. Such claims often arise out of government operations, employment, and housing and include assertions of excessive use of force, invasion of privacy, police chases, false imprisonment, and custodial claims of prisoners. The Kitch firm aggressively defends these claims. Depending on the case, we have found that an intense motion practice can be successful in whittling away the claims that are weak, poorly grounded or subject to immunity. This, in turn, often results in what started out as a difficult case becoming one that can be dismissed or resolved at the nuisance payment level.
General Litigation
When a law firm has it origins in litigation and experiences steady growth over three decades as it meets its client needs, one could expect that firm to be a leader in all types of litigation. With the Kitch firm, that expectation is accurate. In addition to malpractice and birth trauma defense, commercial litigation, government and tax litigation, and insurance coverage litigation, the firm offers experience, knowledge and intensity in its representation of clients in most other types of litigation.
Complex Litigation Support
Our attorneys, who are highly experienced in appeals and complicated legal issues, provide specialized research assistance and analysis to litigators before and during trial in many different types of cases handled by the firm. This includes assistance in researching and drafting dispositive motions and providing research support and assistance in drafting with other pretrial motions, as well as evidentiary issues, directed verdict motions, and problems of procedure arising, sometimes on an emergency basis, during trial.
Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook
1 Woodward Ave #2400
Detroit MI 48226-5485
Tel: 313 965-7900
Fax: 313 965-7403
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