Judge Allows County’s Disparate Impact Claim Against HSBC To Proceed

Mealey's (June 1, 2018, 2:03 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge on May 30 partially dismissed a county’s claims that a bank’s discriminatory lending practices have caused it to suffer injuries, but found that a complaint sufficiently alleges that the bank’s policies caused disparate impact (County of Cook v. HSBC North America Holdings Inc., et al., No. 14-02031, N.D. Ill, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 89724)....