Fair Lending Developments: Standing to Sue Takes the Floor

摘要

The past year once again saw the U.S. Supreme Court grant certiorari on an important fair lending question: whether municipal plaintiffs have standing to bring disparate impact claims in suits under the Fair Housing Act ("FHA"). This action has caused all of the municipal cases that were being actively litigated to be stayed pending a decision from the Supreme Court, except for two pending appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.