47 Years of the Fair Housing Act: DOJ Comments on Recent Enforcement ActivityBadami, Scott
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) are jointly responsible for enforcing the federal Fair Housing Act1(the “Act”), which prohibits discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin,...
DOJ, July 18, 2024 "The Justice Department has filed alawsuitagainst Southwest Key Programs Inc. (Southwest Key), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied children who are encountered at the southern land border of the United States. The lawsuit alleges that Southwest Key, ...
4Simons echoed his counterpart at the DOJ, stating, “We agree with the division leadership that a breach of a FRAND commitment standing alone is not sufficient to support a Sherman Act violation. The same is true even for a fraudulent promise to abide by a FRAND commitment. More is needed...
Department of Justice (DOJ) against several banks for failure to offer loan products on an equal basis to minority neighborhoods under the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. It particularly highlights the types of factual issues that are of importance to the DOJ as well as ...