United States Ninth Circuit

In a Fair Housing Act action alleging racial discrimination by a homeowner's insurer, the dismissal of the complaint is reversed where the District Court erred by construing the complaint as challenging credit scoring per se, when in fact it only challenged Defendant's use of scoring that resulted in a racially disparate impact.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/06/2007
• Decided 05/12/2009
• Published 05/12/2009

Judges

• Before:  MYRON H. BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge, HARRY PREGERSON and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sanford Svetcov, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Harriet S. Posner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.