Maine National Bank v. Rush

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the FHA’s disparate-impact theory prohibits actions that create a discriminatory effect upon a protected class
• explaining that 1 comparing the demographics of the populations that were affected and unaffected by a 2 suspect policy is the appropriate method for assessing disparate impact
• explaining that the FHA requires “robust causality that shows, beyond mere evidence of a statistical disparity, that the challenged policy, and not some other factor or policy, caused the disproportionate effect”
• requiring an adverse effect to satisfy the second prong of prima facie discriminatory impact
• affected public housing customers were nearly four times as likely to be African American and nearly twice as likely to be Native American than to be white

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).