People ex rel. Stewart v. Ahearn

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “increased demand for county services” was one of “the ‘ripples’ that City of Miami cautions ‘flow far beyond the defendant’s misconduct’”
• recognizing, after Inclusive Communities, that the test remains whether a “disparate impact claim surmounts the plausibility hurdle”
• noting that there could “be no question that proximate cause is satisfied” because foreclosure processing costs were an “integral . . . aspect of the violation alleged”; Cook (Bank of Am.
• recognizing equity stripping as a sufficient policy, as it consists of “interrelated predatory and discriminatory loan making, loan servicing and foreclosure activities that occur over the entire life of each mortgage loan”
• noting “after identifying a statistical disparity,” the plaintiff must then “point to a defendant’s policy or policies causing that disparity”
• “Isolating the effects of Wells Fargo’s equity-stripping practice on patterns of racial segregation in Cook County would require the very kind of ‘massive and complex damages litigation’ against which the Supreme Court has strongly cautioned.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).