Madhuri Belkale is a fellow in Cohen Milstein’s Fellowship Program. In this role, she works on litigation matters spanning the firm’s antitrust, consumer protection, civil rights and employment litigation, human rights, and securities practice groups.
Madhuri received a B.S., magna cum laude, from the University of Iowa and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Max Berger Public Interest/Public Service Fellow. During law school, Madhuri was an articles editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and the Columbia Journal of Race & Law. She was also a student attorney for Columbia’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and a law Intern for a civil rights plaintiffs’ side firm.
Madhuri is a native speaker of Kannada and proficient in Spanish.
- District of Columbia
- Columbia Law School, J.D., 2023
- University of Iowa, B.S., magna cum laude, 2020
Current Cases
Equal Rights Center v. Air Communities, L.P., et al.
Equal Rights Center v. Air Communities, L.P., et al. (D.C. Sup. Crt.): Cohen Milstein is representing the Equal Rights Center in a consumer protection lawsuit against AIR Communities, L.P., Rhode Island 15 LP, dba Latrobe Apartment Homes, and Vaughan Place, LLC, for their use of discriminatory policies and practices that create unlawful barriers for applicants in the District of Columbia using housing vouchers and applicants with stale eviction and criminal background histories.
February 2, 2024
DC Apts. Accused Of Discriminating Against Black Applicants
A civil rights organization claims two Washington, D.C., apartment complex owners discriminate against Black people by unlawfully creating boundaries for applicants with eviction or criminal backgrounds or who qualify for Section 8. Civil rights organization Equal Rights Center said the owners of upscale apartment complexes Latrobe Apartment Homes and Vaughan Place created unlawful barriers for […]
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February 1, 2024
D.C. Civil Rights Powerhouse Sues Northwest D.C. Apartment Complexes for Tenant Screening Discrimination
The Equal Rights Center (ERC) has alleged that two upscale D.C. apartment complexes, Latrobe Apartment Homes in Logan Circle and Vaughan Place in McLean Gardens, discriminated against potential tenants using vouchers. The lawsuit, filed today in D.C. Superior Court, also alleges that Air Communities, the owner and manager of the complexes, created unlawful barriers for applicants who have criminal records more than 7 years old and evictions more than 3 years old.
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