Big law firms nationwide have seized a marketing opportunity created when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its June 25 ruling in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project.
With that 5-4 ruling in the civil rights case, the nation’s highest court’s majority decided that statistical evidence of discrimination, paired with practices or policies of housing providers that cause the disparate impact, may suffice to trigger a violation under the nation’s fair housing laws. Notably, the housing provider, developer, or lender does not have to have intended to discriminate in order for a violation to have occurred, the court ruled.
