While America votes on Nov. 8, the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing arguments about how far the Fair Housing Act of 1968 still reaches.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said the law allows Miami to sue financial giants Wells Fargo and Bank of America for discriminating against minorities in mortgage lending. Allegedly the banks either refused credit to minority borrowers on terms equal to nonminorities, a practice called redlining, or they committed reverse redlining by extending credit on predatory terms.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]