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Case Name: American Ins. Ass'n v. U.S. Dep't of Housing and Urban Dev.
Court: U.S. Dist Ct. D.C. Docket: 13-cv-00966-RJL
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Case Issue: Does HUD's final rule, "Implementation of the Fair Housing Act's Discriminatory Effects Standard," violate the Fair Housing Act (FHA) because it allows plaintiffs (1) to show disparate impact only by demonstrating a statistical disparity and (2) displace challenged policy choices without showing theirs are at least as effective? Does the FHA preclude the application of the Rule to homeowner insurers specifically because (1) the Rule "pervasively injects" race into what was a previously "race-blind" process and (2) insurance law requirements break the causal chainbetween the alleged discriminatory acts and the injury claimed by plaintiffs?
Case Name: Bank of Am. v. City of Miami; Wells Fargo Co. v. City of Miami
Court: U.S. Supreme Court Docket: 15-1111 & 15-1112 (consolidated)
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Case Issue: Does the term "aggrieved" in the Fair Housing Act impose a zone-of-interst requirement more stringent than the injury-in-fact requirement of Article III of the Constitution to have standing to sue; and whether the City is an "aggrieved person" under the Fair Housing Act so that it could sue lendees for predatory practices that led to foreclosures and increased costs for the City.
Case Name: City of Oakland v. Wells Fargo
Court: U.S. Ct. App. 9th Cir. Docket: 19-15169
Decided: 8/26/2020
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Case Result: The court held that Congress clearly intended the Fair Housing Act (FHA) to be broad enough to encompass aggregate, city-wide injuries such as a decrease in property taxes that Oakland claimed it suffered as a result of Wells Fargo’s unlawful racially discriminatory lending practices throughout the City. The court also held that to bring declaratory and injunctive relief the City would have to allege that the bank’s ongoing bad acts were the proximate cause of its injuries.
Case Name: Cooper v. Senior Citizens Housing of Ann Arbor
Court: U.S. Dist. Ct. ED Mich. Docket: 18-cv-12448-MAG-MKM
Settled: 7/24/2019
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Case Issue: The parties reached an amicable settlement in which Lurie Terrace removed the "able to live independently" requirement from its lease and adopted model policies and practices to prevent disability discrimination and guarantee that reasonable accommodations will be available to tenants.
Case Name: Fair Housing Justice Center v. Hochul
Court: U.S. Dist. Ct. NY (Southern Dist.) Docket: 18-civ-3186
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