Legal Opinion
City of Miami v. Bank of America Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 1, 2015No. 14-14544PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
The City of Miami has brought an ambitious fair housing lawsuit against Bank of America, 1 alleging that it engaged in a decade-long pattern of discriminatory lending in the residential housing market that caused the City economic harm. The City claims that the bank targeted black and Latino customers in Miami for predatory loans that carried more risk, steeper fees, and higher costs than those offered to identically situated white customers, and created internal incentive structures that encouraged employees to provide these types of loans. The predatory loans, as…
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