Asthmatic Condo Dweller Loses Bid to Force Smoking Ban (MI)

Phyllis Davis suffers from asthma but lives in a condominium complex that allows residents to smoke in their condos. Davis asserts that the smell of smoke regularly emanating from a neighbor’s condo aggravated her asthma. Unsatisfied with her condo association’s efforts to address the situation, she sued the association and its property manager. Davis alleged that these defendants, byrefusing to ban smoking, discriminated against her under the Fair Housing Amendments Act, violated various condo bylaws, and allowed a tortious nuisance to persist   Read the opinion – PDF…………………………….

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