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Judge rules in Gainesvilles favor on fair housing suit involving alleged racial epithets by worker
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A judge last week ruled in favor of the city of Gainesville in a federal Fair Housing Act lawsuit, saying the alleged racial epithets of one employee cannot make the city liable for damages. Gregory and Sophia Bonds filed a lawsuit in August 2015 regarding neighbor and Gainesville solid waste department employee Roy Hubert Turner Jr. The Bonds family alleged Turner subjected them to repeated racial slurs and intimidation since the family moved in February 2012 to Cumberland Drive in Gainesville. U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Story ruled Turner’s conduct was “purely personal.”