Plaintiffs were black homeowners in a predominantly black neighborhood of Cincinnati. They purchased insurance from Defendants--an insurance company and its local affiliate--in 1955. After defendants terminated coverage for their neighborhood in 1977, Plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District ...
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Plaintiffs were black homeowners in a predominantly black neighborhood of Cincinnati. They purchased insurance from Defendants--an insurance company and its local affiliate--in 1955. After defendants terminated coverage for their neighborhood in 1977, Plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, alleging that the Defendants had terminated insurance coverage based on the racial composition of Plaintiffs' neighborhood, in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601-3619.
U.S. District Court Judge Rubin denied the Defendants' motion to dismiss on August 25, 1978, holding that a denial of home insurance could constitute a denial of credit in connection with home ownership, thus proving a violation of the FHA. On June 20, 1979, Judge Rubin reconsidered the Defendants' motion to dismiss and again held that the FHA prohibited racially motivated denials of insurance connected to home ownership. Dunn v. Midwestern Indem. Mid-American Fire & Casualty Co., 472 F. Supp. 1106 (S.D. Ohio 1979).
On September 26, 1980, Judge Rubin held that the Plaintiffs' could obtain copies of Defendants' computer records as part of the their Discovery. Dunn v. Midwestern Indem. Mid-American Fire & Casualty Co., 88 F.R.D. 191 (S.D. Ohio 1980).
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Andrew Nash - 06/02/2008
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