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Alleged Housing Discrimination by MBI Leads to Lawsuits

Complaints were filed by a number of people against Mitchell Brothers, Inc. (MBI) alleging they had been denied the opportunity to rent apartments under its management because of their race.

These persons alleged that when they applied for rental properties managed by MBI in 1991 to 1992, they were asked to fill out information cards which were marked to identify them as African-Americans for discriminatory purposes.

This series of articles appeared in The Harbinger covering the resulting lawsuits.

• More Complaints About Housing Discrimination by MBI (Aug 1, 1995)
• Housing Discrimination Complaint Filed In Mobile Federal Court (Oct 10, 1995)
• Motion to Dismiss (Oct 31, 1995)
• Up the Judicial Ladder (Dec 12, 1995)
• Update: Housing Discrimination Lawsuit Against MBI (Jan 9, 1996)
• Update: Lawsuit Against Mitchell Brothers, Inc. Moving Slowly Forward In Court (Feb 20, 1996)
• MBI Faces a Third Housing Discrimination Lawsuit While Near Settlement in Another (Apr 9, 1996)
• MBI Housing Discrimination Update (Apr 30, 1996)
• Jury Selection Set for July 1 (May 28, 1996)
• MBI Denies Housing Discrimination but Settles for Record Sum (Jun 25, 1996)
• Judge Rules Against MBI in Yet Another Housing Discrimination Lawsuit (Jul 16, 1996)
• The Continuing Saga of MBI and Housing Discrimination (Oct 15, 1996)
• Trial or Settlement? Another MBI Housing Discrimination Lawsuit Coming to the End of the Line (Nov 19, 1996)
• Will a Settlement Be Reached by December 3? (Dec 3, 1996)
• Craft Vs. MBI Settled on the Turn of the Cards (Jan 7, 1997)
• MBI Wants Aetna Insurance to Pay Housing Discrimination Costs (Oct 7, 1997)
• Update: MBI vs. Aetna Insurance (Jan 13, 1998)
• Correction (Jan 27, 1998)
• It Pays to Discriminate?? Circuit Court Judge Orders Aetna to Pay MBI for the Housing Discrimination Lawsuits and Then Some (Nov 17, 1998)