United States Second Circuit

In cases involving possible racial discrimination in the residential real estate lending practices of several national banks, judgments permanently enjoining New York State Attorney General from investigating national banks and their operating subsidiaries for possible violations of federal and state fair lending laws is vacated in part where the district court lacked jurisdiction over claim in one case regarding enforcement of the Fair Housing Act, as that claim was unripe.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/04/2007
• Published 12/04/2007

Judges

• Before:  CARDAMONE and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, and KOELTL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Caitlin Halligan, Solicitor General (Dieter Snell, Deputy Attorney General;  Michelle Aronowitz, Deputy Solicitor General;  Richard Dearing, Julie Loughran, Shaifali Puri, Assistant Solicitors General, of counsel), New York, NY, for Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of the State of New York, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant., Robinson B. Lacy (H. Rodgin Cohen, Adam R. Brebner, Keith Levenberg, on the brief), Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee The Clearing House Association, L.L.C., Douglas B. Jordan (Julie L. Williams, Daniel P. Stipano, Horace G. Sneed, on the brief), Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.