County: Argument Properly Raised For Judge To Reconsider FHA Suit Ruling

Mealey's (March 22, 2023, 10:01 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois should alter or amend his ruling excluding the testimony of a county’s expert in a Fair Housing Act (FHA) discriminatory lending lawsuit against Wells Fargo & Co. and several of its affiliates and granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants because the judge committed several errors that when viewed “individually or taken together,” show that his reasoning for excluding the testimony was erroneous under Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc., the county argues in a brief in reply to its motion to alter or amend....