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ICP v. Texas Amicus Briefs

June 25, 2015 by

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact standard in Inclusive Communities Project v. Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs reaffirmed 40 years of settled precedent under the Fair Housing Act. The disparate impact standard is a core mechanism through which housing rights are protected and structural discrimination can be addressed, because it enables plaintiffs to challenge unjustified policies with discriminatory effects, or that reinforce segregation. The underlying case involved ICP’s successful challenge to racially segregated siting of Low Income Housing Tax Credit developments in the Dallas area.  PRRAC was part of a broad civil rights coalition working to present amicus curiae arguments to the Court.

Briefs of the parties

  • Brief of Inclusive Communities Project
  • Brief of Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs

Selected Amicus Briefs Supporting ICP

  • Brief of the U.S. Solicitor General
  • Amicus brief of Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, PRRAC, Opportunity Agenda, Leadership Conference and 27 other groups
  • Amicus brief of Equal Justice Society, The Western Center on Law and Poverty, Legal Services of Northern California, and Rachel Godsil of Seton Hall Univ. School of Law.
  • Amicus brief of the American Planning Association and Housing Land Advocates
  • Amicus brief of Housing Scholars
  • Amicus brief of former HUD officials
  • Amicus brief of NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  • Amicus brief of AARP et al
  • Amicus brief of NFHA, Self-Help, and HOPE
  • Amicus brief of current and former members of Congress
  • Amicus brief of former DOJ officials
  • Amicus brief of state attorney generals
  • Amicus brief of the NAACP
  • Amicus brief of the National Community Land Trust
  • Amicus brief of the ACLU, National Consumer Law Center, and Legal Momentum
  • Amicus brief of Howard Law School Clinics

(To see all the briefs filed in the case, go to www.danielbesharalawfirm.com )

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