• McClain v. Shelter General Insurance Co. (8th Cir.) -- Amicus
  • The Mccarran-Ferguson Act does not bar plaintiffs’ Fair Housing Act claims
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus [PDF]	07/02/07
  Reply Brief as Amicus [PDF]	09/17/07

• Saunders v. Farmers Insurance Exchange (8th Cir.) -- Amicus
  • The Mccarran-Ferguson Act does not bar plaintiffs’ Fair Housing Act claims
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus [PDF]	07/02/07
  Reply Brief as Amicus [PDF]	09/17/07

• Saunders v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co. (8th Cir.) -- Amicus
  • The Mccarran-Ferguson Act does not bar plaintiffs’ Fair Housing Act claims
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus [PDF]	07/02/07
  Reply Brief as Amicus [PDF]	09/17/07

• George v. Colony Lakes Property Owners Ass'n (N.D. Ill.) -- Amicus
  • 24 C.F.R. 100.400(c)(2) permissibly interprets 42 U.S.C. 3617 to reach postacquisition discrimination
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus [PDF]	04/14/06
  District Court Decision, available at 2006 WL 1735345	09/26/06

• Wisconsin Community Services, Inc. v. City of Milwaukee (7th Cir.) -- Amicus
  • Does 28 C.F.R. 35.130(b)(7) or 28 C.F.R. 41.53 apply to disputes about zoning in suits under the Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
  • Do 28 C.F.R. 35.130(b)(7) and 28 C.F.R. 41.53, if applicable to zoning disputes, create an entitlement to accomodation in the absence of intentional discrimination or disparate impact?
  • If the answer to Questions 1 and 2 is yes, are the regulations valid?
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus on Rehearing En Banc [PDF]	11/23/05
  Court of Appeals Decision [PDF], reported at 465 F.3d 737	09/26/06

• White v. HUD (7th Cir.) -- Respondent
  • Substantial evidence supports the ALJ'S decision that the August 1998 telephone conversation did not violate 42 U.S.C. 3604(C)
  • The ALJ did not abuse its discretion in refusing to grant petitioner's request to amend the charge of discrimination
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Respondent [PDF]	08/29/05
  Court of Appeals Decision [PDF], reported at 475 F.3d 898	02/02/07

• Richard & Milton Grant Co. v. Memphis Center for Independent Living (6th Cir.) -- Respondent
  
   

  Document	Date
  Answer in Opposition as Respondent [PDF]	09/02/04
  Petitions for permission to appeal denied	11/04/04

• United States v. Garden Homes Management Corp. (3d Cir.) -- Appellee
  • The district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing a sanction of $1,000 per day for 208 days for defendants' failure to comply with the consent order and the court's first contempt order
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief for the United States as Appellee [PDF]	01/12/04
  Court of Appeals Decision [PDF], unreported, 104 Fed. Appx. 796	07/19/04

• United States v. City of Jackson (5th Cir.) -- Appellee
  • The district court did not abuse its discretion by awarding attorney's fees and expenses as compensation for the City's violation of the consent decree
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief for the United States as Appellee [PDF]	09/12/03
  Court of Appeals decision [PDF], reported at 359 F.3d 727	02/04/04

• United States v. Edward Rose & Sons (6th Cir.) -- Appellee
  • The district court did not abuse its discretion in issuing the preliminary injunction
  • The design of the 19 proposed buildings violates the Fair Housing Act
  • The district court had discretion to enter a preliminary injunction because the United States demonstrated at least a reasonable probability that a statutory violation had occurred or was about to occur
  • Even if the traditional equitable factors applied here, the district court did not abuse its discretion in issuing the preliminary injunction
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief for the United States as Appellee [PDF]	08/18/03
  Court of Appeals Decision [PDF], reported at 384 F.3d 258	08/25/04

• HUD v. Kocerka (7th Cir.) -- Petitioner
  • Whether this Court should set aside the order of enforcement it issued after Respondents failed to answer the third show cause order
  
   

  Document	Date
  Response of the United States to Petition for Rehearing [PDF]	02/12/02
  Petition for Rehearing Denied	03/04/02

• Fair Housing of Marin County v. Jack Combs (9th Cir.) -- Amicus
  • Fair housing group established standing under the Fair Housing Act and Article III by demonstrating that the defendant's illegal housing discrimination injured the group's fair housing educational and counseling program, requiring the group to undertake remedial programs in the community to mitigate the damage
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus [HTML]  [PDF]	03/26/01
  Court of Appeals decision [PDF], reported at 285 F.3d 899	04/09/02

• Groome Resources, Ltd. v. Parish of Jefferson (5th Cir.) -- Intervenor
  • Fair Housing Act is a valid exercise of the Commerce Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment
  • Tenth Amendment no bar to application of Fair Housing Act to county
  • Act is not unconstitutionally vague
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Intervenor [HTML] [PDF]	02/22/00
  Court of Appeals decision [PDF], reported at 234 F. 3d 192	11/22/00

• Thomas v. Anchorage Equal Rights Commission (9th Cir.) -- Amicus
  • Landlords' Free Exercise Clause challenge to local fair housing law must fail because landlord did not make colorable claim that fair housing law constituted a taking of property or violated First Amendment right to free speech
  
   

  Document	Date
  En Banc Brief as Amicus [HTML] [PDF]	12/22/99
  Court of Appeals En Banc decision [PDF], reported at 192 F.3d 1208	08/04/00

• Veles v. Lindow (9th Cir.) -- Amicus
  • Fair Housing Act prohibits actions with discriminatory effects on the basis of national origin
  • English-only rule imposed by landlord may violate Fair Housing Act
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus [HTML]  [PDF]	09/23/99
  Court of Appeals decision, unpublished	11/01/00

• LA ACORN Fair Housing v. LeBlanc (5th Cir.) -- Amicus
  • Award of punitive damages under Fair Housing Act governed by federal, not state, law
  • Punitive damages under the Fair Housing Act can be awarded without an award of compensatory damages
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus [HTML]  [PDF]	06/10/99
  Court of Appeals decision [PDF], reported at 211 F.3d 298	05/15/00

• Alexander v. Riga (3d Cir.) -- Amicus
  • Award of punitive damages under Fair Housing Act governed by federal, not state, law
  • Punitive damages under the Fair Housing Act can be awarded without an award of compensatory damages
  • Showing of intentional discrimination is sufficient for award punitive damages
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus [HTML] [PDF]	06/03/99
  Court of Appeals decision [HTML], reported at 208 F.3d 419	03/22/00

• United States v. Big D Enterprises, Inc. (8th Cir.) -- Appellee
  • Evidence sufficient to show pattern and practice of discrimination
  • Award of punitive damages under Fair Housing Act governed by federal, not state, law
  • Appropriate to examine defendants' wealth in assessing punitive damages
  • $25,000 in punitive damages per defendant did not violate due process
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Appellee [HTML]  [PDF]	11/20/98
  Court of Appeals decision [PDF], reported at 184 F.3d 924	07/09/99
  Opposition to Petition for Certiorari [HTML]  [PDF]	02/14/99
  Petition for Certiorari denied, reported at 529 U.S. 1018	03/20/00

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