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DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Anoka

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On November 7, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division issued a finding that the City of Anoka, Minnesota violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by denying tenants with mental health disabilities an equal opportunity to use the emergency response service. The DOJ's investigation found that the city's "crime free" housing ordinance discouraged people with mental health disabilities from calling emergency response services for he…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Open Communities Alliance v. Carson

1:17-cv-02192 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 15, 2018

The background to this case concerns a policy known as the Small Area Fair Market Rent (“FMR”) rule that was set to go into effect on January 1, 2018, after years of advocacy, research, and public debate. The rule required the public housing agencies (PHAs) that administered the Housing Choice Voucher program (formerly Section 8) to set voucher values in 24 metropolitan areas based on the prevailing private market rents for each distinct zip code within those regions. The revised methodology re…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Ameris Bank

3:23-cv-01232 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case involved the discriminatory denial and discouragement of loan and credit service applications in majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. On October 19, 2023, the United States government brought a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The plaintiff sued Ameris Bank under the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant purposefully engaged in the practice of redlining—denying or discouragin…
POLICING
United States v. Town of Colorado City

3:12-cv-08123 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 21, 2012

Case Ongoing

On June 21, 2012, the United States Department of Justice filed this action against the town of Colorado City, Arizona, the city of Hildale, Utah, and utilities serving them. The lawsuit was filed under the Fair Housing Act Amendments (42 U.S.C. § 3601); Title III of the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 2000b); and 42 U.S.C. § 14141. The DOJ sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the municipalities had unconstitutionally established a religion, and denied equal protection of the l…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Monk v. United States

3:22-cv-01503 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations of systemic discrimination against Black veterans by the U.S. On November 28, 2022, a Black veteran filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the United States of America for the acts of its employees under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) and state law. The lawsuit followed a Freedom of Information Act-prompted release of data in 2021 by Veterans Affairs that demonstrated a statistically significant differenc…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Management, Inc.

1:73-01529 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 1973

Closed Date: June 10, 1977

This case was brought against Fred and Donald Trump, and their real estate company, in 1973 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.  In October 1973, the Justice Department filed this civil rights case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (federal court in Brooklyn) against Fred Trump, Donald Trump, and their real estate company. The complaint alleged that the firm had committed systemic violations of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 in their many…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Meta Platforms, Inc.

1:22-cv-05187 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 21, 2022

Case Ongoing

On June 21, 2022, the United States filed this suit against Meta (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to enforce the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”). The FHA prohibits discrimination in housing, including housing-related advertising, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, and national origin (“FHA-protected characteristics”). The United States alleged that Meta’s housing advertising system discriminated ag…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Village of Hinsdale

1:20-cv-06959 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 2020

Case Ongoing

On November 24, 2020, the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the Village of Hinsdale, Illinois. The lawsuit alleged that the Village discriminated on the basis of disability in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) when it prohibited a sober living facility from operating and refused to consider  the facility’s request for a …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Park National Bank

2:23-cv-00822 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”) and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (“ECOA”). On February 28, 2023, Merrick Garland, Attorney General of the United States, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against Park National Bank (“PNB”). The complaint was filed following an investigation done as part of the DOJ’s Combating Redlining Initiative started in October of 2021.  The U.S. sought to remedy PNB’s alleged discriminatory practices in mortga…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. City of Hesperia

5:19-cv-02298 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case involves a challenge to the City of Hesperia’s “crime-free rental housing” program, which required all rental property owners to evict tenants if they received notification from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department that tenants had engaged in any alleged “criminal activity” on or near the property. The program was adopted in 2015. The program also mandated criminal background checks and the Sheriff’s Department screening for tenants. The city later adopted a “rental housing …