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BHANDARI v. FIRST NAT. BANK OF COMMERCE

No. 85-3445.

808 F.2d 1082 (1987)

Jeetendra BHANDARI Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Granted March 2, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark G. Murov, Rita K. Ward, Murov & Ward, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

James B. Irwin, Marta Alison Richards, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before GEE and HILL, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER, District Judge.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Jeetendra Bhandari sued appellee First National Bank of Commerce after First National declined to issue him a credit card. First National refused Bhandari credit in part because he was not a citizen of the United States. The district court held that neither 42 U.S.C. § 1981 nor the Equal Credit Opportunity Act ("ECOA") gave Bhandari a legal remedy for private alienage discrimination. The...

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