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Mt. Holly Gardens Citizens in Action v. Township of Mount Holly

1:08-cv-02584 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 5, 2008

On May 5, 2008, an association of residents of a New Jersey neighborhood filled a lawsuit under the Fair Housing Act and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The residents, represented by lawyers from South Jersey Legal Services, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claiming that the defendants' redevelopment plan for the Gardens neighborhood represented a violation of the Fair Housing Act and of the Equal Protection Clauses of…
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Cartwright v. American Savings & Loan Association

2:82-cv-00637 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 27, 1982

Closed Date: 1989

Plaintiffs, a minority loan applicant and a fair housing non-profit, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, alleging that Defendant-lender violated the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S. 3601-3619, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 15 U.S.C. 1691, and federal civil rights statutes, 42 U.S.C. 1981, 1982, by discriminating against Plaintiff-loan applicant on the basis of her race. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Mills granted the Defendants' motion to dismiss after f…
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Emigrant Savings Bank v. Elan Management Corp.

1:80-cv-01381 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 20, 1980

Closed Date: 1982

Plaintiff-bank filed suit in New York state court to foreclose on an apartment building owned by Defendant. Defendant filed a motion to remove the case to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York under 28 U.S.C. 1443(1), alleging that Plaintiff had refused to renegotiate the terms of the mortgage for the building in response to Defendant's complaints to federal and state agencies about Plaintiff's illegal race-based discrimination. The District Court remanded the case to sta…
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Love v. Vilsack

1:00-cv-02502 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2000

On October 19, 2000, a group of women farmers and ranchers filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("USDA") in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleged in their complaint that the USDA had engaged in systematic discrimination against women farmers in ranchers in its farm loan and loan servicing programs. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that women had been denied the opportunity to apply for loans i…
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Garcia v. Vilsack

1:00-cv-02445 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2000

Closed Date: 2014

On October 13, 2000, a group of Hispanic farmers and ranchers filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("USDA") in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleged that the "USDA ha[d] maintained, and continue[d] to maintain, a system of administering its farm credit and non-credit benefit programs that gives virtually unfettered discretion to local officials to enforce highly subjective eligibility criteria that, in…
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Keepseagle v. Vilsack

1:99-cv-03119 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 1999

Closed Date: 2018

On November 24, 1999, Plaintiffs first filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("USDA") in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs, Native American farmers who alleged they were victims of discriminatory lending practices by the USDA, brought suit under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. §2201, and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 15, U.S.C. §1691. Specifically, Plaintiffs claimed that the USDA's Farm Service Agency ("FSA") had failed to re…
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Ricci v. Key Bancshares of Maine, Inc.

2:82-cv-00249 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Aug. 26, 1982

Closed Date: June 17, 1987

Plaintiff, an Italian-American businessman whose business operations depended on a revolving line of credit with a bank, brought suit against Defendant-bank after the bank terminated his line of credit, allegedly because of the Plaintiff's national origin. The Defendant-bank then impleaded third-party Defendants, F.B.I. agents, who had allegedly made statements to the Defendant-bank about the Plaintiff's business activities that led the Defendant-bank to terminate the Plaintiff's line of credit…
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Thomas v. First Federal Sav. Bank

2:84-00716 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 1984

Closed Date: Feb. 6, 1987

Plaintiffs, an African-American couple and a housing non-profit, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, alleging violations of the federal civil rights statute, 42 U.S.C. 1982, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), 15 U.S.C. 1691, and the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619. The individual plaintiffs had applied for a home equity loan from the Defendant-lender and, after being rejected for the loan, they alleged that the Defendant had based its de…
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Pigford v. Glickman

1:97-cv-01978 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 1997

On August 28, 1997, three African-American farmers, on behalf of a putative class of 641 African-American farmers, filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA") under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act ("ECOA"), 15 U.S.C. § 1691, and the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"), 5 U.S.C. § 551. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and monetary relief, alleging that both the USDA and county officials to whom the USDA delegated a…
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Adkins v. Morgan Stanley

1:12-cv-07667 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2012

Closed Date: 2017

On October 15, 2012, five black Detroit residents and Michigan Legal Services filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Morgan Stanley under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601 et seq., the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), 15 U.S.C. § 1691, and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the National Consumer Law Center, and private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, declaratory relief, damages, a…