11th Circuit Denies Petition For Rehearing In Discriminatory Lending Suit

Mealey's (May 1, 2020, 9:33 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A majority of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 27 voted against rehearing the city of Miami Gardens’ arguments that it had standing to pursue claims that Wells Fargo & Co. and Wells Fargo Bank violated the Fair Housing Act by engaging in discriminatory lending practices in Latino and African-American neighborhoods, holding that the city was unable to produce sufficient evidence that it had standing to bring its claims under Article III of the U.S. Constitution (City of Miami Gardens v. Wells Fargo & Co., No. 18-13152-AA, 11th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 13450)....