Karl Pfaff Elizabeth Pfaff v. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD
• indicating that the “appropriate standard of rebuttal in disparate impact cases normally requires a compelling business necessity.”
• \this provision [lessens] the burden of the fair housing laws on government entities as compared to private landlords\
• “[HUD’s] interpretation of the FHA ‘ordinarily commands considerable deference’ because ‘HUD [is] the federal agency primarily assigned to implement and administer Title VIII.’ ”
• “A party charged with discrimination may diffuse a prima facie case against him, and hence avoid the need to supply a legally sufficient, nondiscriminatory reason in rebuttal, by successfully challenging the statistical basis of the charge.”
• “We may look for guidance to employment discrimination cases.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).