U.S. Supreme Court
May 17, 2017
Ruling is important victory for civil rights
The U.S. Supreme Court gave civil rights plaintiffs an important victory when it ruled that the city of Miami had standing to sue under the Fair Housing Act to challenge discriminatory lending by banks.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
On May 1, the U.S Supreme Court gave civil rights plaintiffs an important victory when it ruled that the city of Miami had standing to sue under the Fair Housing Act to challenge discriminatory lending by banks. In Bank of America v. City of Miami, 2017 DJDAR the court, in a 5-3 decision, held that the city was an "aggrieved person" within the zone of interests protected by the statute. The court also said the city needs to allege and prove that its injuries were proximately cause...
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