AvalonBay Communities settles ADA suit 

Posted: 7:51 pm Thu, November 5, 2009
By Brendan Kearney

A major housing developer has agreed to resolve a long-running federal lawsuit by making thousands of its units accessible and paying a civil rights group $50,000 a year for the next 10 years for consulting services. Attorneys for AvalonBay Communities Inc. and the Equal Rights Center reached the agreement in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, and ...