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FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Inc. v. Avant Realty LLC

1:25-cv-00040 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 2025

This case is about discrimination based on race when providing housing information. On January 13, 2025, a nonprofit housing organization, Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Inc. (HOME), filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court Western District of New York. Represented by NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the plaintiff sued a real estate company under the Fair Housing Act and New York State Human Rights Law. The plaintiff argued that the defendant, in violation of those statu…

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Lindsey v. Carson

4:19-cv-00612 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2019

On August 9, 2019, Plaintiff, a private citizen, filed this complaint pro se in the Western District of Missouri. In the complaint, Plaintiff accused Ben Carson in his capacity as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of (1) breaching a duty to provide Plaintiff housing and (2) murdering Plaintiff's nephew in an attempt to prevent Plaintiff from obtaining the same. Plaintiff sought "specific performance" compelling Ben Carsen to provide Plaintiff housing. Plaintiff also sought to "punish e…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Louis v. SafeRent Solutions, LLC

1:22-cv-10800 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 25, 2022

This case pertains to a tenant-screening algorithm that allegedly reinforced racial and economic discrimination in rental housing access.  On May 25, 2022, the plaintiffs—two Black women who held federally funded housing vouchers—filed this class action lawsuit against SafeRent Solutions, LLC, a tenant-screening company, and Metropolitan Management Group, LLC, a property manager that used SafeRent’s screening services. The Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS), a nonprofit that assists l…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago v. City of Chicago

1:18-cv-03399 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 13, 2018

This action challenges the state of Illinois’ housing practices for alleged failure to comply with federal disability accessibility law. On May 13, 2018, Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago, Inc., an Illinois-based disability advocacy nonprofit, sued the City of Chicago in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern District. Plaintiff observed that Chicago had developed and supported affordable housing initiatives (“Affordable Rental Housing Program”) since 1988 with th…

Case Is Ongoing

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Bloom v. City of San Diego

3:17-cv-02324 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2017

On November 15, 2017, a group of homeless individuals sued the City of San Diego, alleging that the city's enforcement of parking and vehicle habitation ordinances against them was a violation of their Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment) and Fourteenth Amendment (substantive due process, right to travel and equal protection) rights. Plaintiffs sought to certify a class consisting of "All persons in the City of San Diego who used, use, or will use an RV or other vehicle as their only…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Williams v. Tricon Residential, Inc.

8:24-cv-02534 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2024

The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana (FHCCI) and an individual who resided in Indianapolis, Indiana (together, “plaintiffs”) brought this lawsuit against Tricon Residential, Inc. (Tricon), Tricon American Homes LLC, and TAH Holding LP (together, “defendants”) in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Southern Division on November 20, 2024. The named plaintiff was a black man who applied to rent a Tricon home and was denied due to prior criminal convictions, despite…

Case Is Ongoing

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Naretto v. City of Petaluma

3:21-cv-10027 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Closed Date: June 7, 2022

This lawsuit was filed on October 5, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs, representative of the residents of Steamer Landing Park camp, filed an ex parte application for a temporary restraining order (TRO) and preliminary injunction. Plaintiffs requested that the court halt the expulsion of homeless persons from Steamer Landing Park by granting a TRO and preliminary injunction against the defendants' criminalization of homelessness pursuant to Pe…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Coleman v. Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority

3:25-cv-00133 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2025

On February 20, 2025, two residents of Richmond Redevelopment Housing Authority (RRHA) filed a class action lawsuit against RRHA in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. They alleged that RRHA systematically overcharged its poorest residents by failing to offer and grant the Hardship Exemption to minimum rent, in violation of the United States Housing Act and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. According to the complaint, RRHA failed to provide r…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. ESSA Bank & Trust

2:23-cv-02065 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 31, 2023

On May 31, 2023, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice filed this lawsuit against ESSA Bank & Trust in the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The complaint claimed that ESSA’s policies and practices violated the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”) and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (“ECOA”) by redlining majority-Black and Hispanic communities and discouraging prospective applicants from applying for credit on the basis of race and national origin. The DOJ requ…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Power Forward Communities, Inc. v. Citibank

1:25-cv-00762 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

This case challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) immediate termination of a $2 billion federal clean energy grant and Citibank’s refusal to release the associated funds. On March 14, 2025, Power Forward Communities, Inc. (PFC) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Citibank, EPA, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and Acting Deputy Administrator William Charles McIntosh. PFC was represented by Foley Hoag LLP. The case was assigned to Judge …

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