Amici are eight nonprofit organizations dedicated to fair housing and civil rights: National Fair Housing Alliance, National Consumer Law Center, UnidosUS, Public Justice, Center for Responsible Lending, Poverty and Race Research Action Council, Southern Poverty Law Center, and League of United Latin American Citizens. Amici submit this memorandum because they are concerned that the parties’ joint motion improperly asks the Court to approve and enforce relief that is unrelated to the pleaded case or the civil rights statutes under which it was brought, even as the proposed settlement fails to provide adequate relief to those harmed by the predatory and discriminatory scheme at issue.
Approving the joint motion thereby would undermine civil rights enforcement and is contrary to the requirement that a “consent decree must spring from and serve to resolve a dispute within the court’s subject matter jurisdiction.”
Given the lack of adversarial argument on the parties’ joint motion, Amici believe that this
memorandum will be helpful to the Court in considering the motion.
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