ROBERTS v. FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY

No. 17-1880.

889 F.3d 397 (2018)

Christopher ROBERTS, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 3, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christian D. Ambler , Attorney, Stone & Johnson, CHTD, Chicago, IL, Brian W. Barnes , Attorney, Charles J. Cooper , Attorney, Peter A. Patterson , Attorney, David Thompson , Attorney, Cooper & Kirk, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Howard N. Cayne , Attorney, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC, Alex H. Hartzler , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees, Federal Housing Finance Agency and Melvin L. Watt, in his official capacity as Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Alex H. Hartzler , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, Gerard Sinzdak , Attorney, Abby Christine Wright , Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees Department of the Treasury, Jacob J. Lew, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Treasury, and Steven T. Mnuchin, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Treasury.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Bauer and Easterbrook, Circuit Judges.


At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress created the Federal Housing Finance Agency (the Agency) and authorized it to place into conservatorship two critical government-sponsored enterprises — the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, commonly known as Fannie Mae...

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