Tuesday, May 2, 2017

US Supreme Court: The Court held that a city claiming decreased property values and added expenses caused by increased foreclosures resulting from racially discriminatory lending practices by two banks was an “aggrieved person” entitled to file suit against the banks under the Fair Housing Act, but that a plaintiff must do more than show that its injuries foreseeably flowed from the alleged statutory violation
Maine Legislature: LD 1566 would enact the Maine Fair Chance Employment Act, which adds restrictions to the use of criminal history information in the context of employment decisions by private employers (the Maine Human Rights Commission would have enforcement authority)
First Circuit: The court affirmed the post-verdict ($14.5 million) dismissal of defamation lawsuit for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction where there was no diversity of citizenship because one of the plaintiffs was not a citizen of a state (he was domiciled in Haiti, despite voting in Iowa), and the court agreed that defendant would be prejudiced if only the non-citizen plaintiff were dismissed to cure the jurisdictional deficiency

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