A split Seventh Circuit panel on Thursday rejected a Palestinian-American woman’s attempt to revive a discrimination lawsuit centering on her eviction for refusing to take a Palestinian flag down from her apartment window.
Manal Farhan didn’t provide enough support for her theory that the owner and operator of her apartment building, in enforcing a “neutrality” policy requiring her to take down the flag, discriminated against her on the basis of national origin, Judge Joshua Kolar of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit wrote for the majority.
Farhan didn’t allege anything related to a discriminatory intent motivating the ...
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