A homeowner’s association did not discriminate against a mixed-race couple and their autistic child when it revoked the family’s access to the property’s communal pool, a Delaware Chancery Court judge has ruled.

Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III ruled Thursday in Henlopen Landing Homeowners Association v. Vester that the homeowners association had instead punished the family for improperly altering its driveway against the association’s internal rules, and there was no evidence indicating that the driveway dispute was a pretext for, or motivated by, discrimination.