Patriot, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that “plaintiffs have demonstrated irreparable harm in damage to their business reputation” where government letter portrayed them as engaging in unsavory business practices
• noting that the “plaintiffs have demonstrated irreparable harm in damage to their business reputation”
• finding that to establish likelihood of success on merits of implied contract claim “mere expectancy of a continued course of conduct is not enough, even in situations where the disappointment of expectations results in a heavy financial loss”
• finding plaintiffs’ business reputation would be damaged by agency’s characterization of them as “enticing” senior citizens into meetings, and “pressuring” them to obtain reverse mortgages “under the guise of sound estate planning.”
• finding plaintiffs’ business reputation would be damaged by [agency’s] characterization of them as “enticing” senior citizens into meetings, and “pressuring” them to obtain reverse mortgages “under the guise of sound estate planning.”
• “[T]he public interest is best served by having federal agencies comply with the requirements of federal law . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).