Manal Farhan v. 2715 NMA LLC (2025)

Citation: Manal Farhan v. 2715 NMA LLC (2025)
Parent Document: Manal Farhan v. 2715 NMA LLC (2025)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2025-12-04
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10747699/manal-farhan-v-2715-nma-llc/ ↗

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The implications from Farhan’s position are clear: she was
punished for her political views and actions in support of the
Palestinian cause. But the FHA’s protections simply do not
extend to discrimination based on political expression. Cf. 42
U.S.C. § 3604(b) (prohibiting “discriminat[ion] … because of
race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin”).3
That the political expression in question implicates Farhan’s
heritage does not, without more, automatically transform
viewpoint discrimination into intentional national origin dis-
crimination. Accepting Farhan’s own reading of her com-
plaint, her noncompliance with the neutrality policy—not her
protected status—was the reason for her eviction.
   The dissent reads the complaint differently, and under-
stands Farhan to be claiming that “[d]efendants discriminated
against her because of her Palestinian national origin by dis-
criminatorily enforcing her lease’s policy prohibiting hanging
objects outside of windows.” Post at 23. But we fail to see in
Farhan’s submissions, in our court or below, the position the
dissent ascribes to her. For one, Farhan has not taken the

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