Fair Housing for All

Beth Pepper, a long-time advocate for people with disabilities, has a practice encompassing civil rights issues: fair housing, employment, public accommodations, education and mental health. Her clients include organizations and providers of services to people with disabilities, families whose children have special needs and individuals with disabilities. Ms. Pepper has litigated several groundbreaking fair housing cases. She argued the landmark Third Circuit case, Hovsons v. Township of Brick, establishing that the civil rights laws supercede local zoning ordinances as applied to housing for people with disabilities. In another significant case, Ms. Pepper helped a fair housing group sue a developer to stop construction of an inaccessible housing development. Among Ms. Pepper's many publications is the law review article entitled "Discriminatory Zoning Practices," Maryland Bar Journal, vol.34, Sept./October 2001. Ms. Pepper received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law.