United States Supreme Court

In a City's suit against two national Banks, alleging violations of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), which prohibits racial discrimination in connection with real-estate transactions, 42 U.S.C. sections 3604(b) and 3605(a), alleging that the Banks' discriminatory conduct led to a disproportionate number of foreclosures and vacancies in majority-minority neighborhoods, which impaired the City's effort to assure racial integration, diminished the City's property-tax revenue, and increased demand for police, fire, and other municipal services, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' decision vacating the District Court's dismissal of the complaint is vacated where: 1) the City is an 'aggrieved person' authorized to bring suit under the FHA; but 2) the Eleventh Circuit erred in concluding that the complaints met the FHA's proximate-cause requirement based solely on the finding that the City's alleged financial injuries were foreseeable results of the Banks' misconduct.

Appellate Information

• Published 2017/05/01

Judges

• BREYER

Court

• United States Supreme Court

Counsel