CITY OF MIAMI v. WELLS FARGO & CO.

No. 14-14544, No. 14-14543 Non-Argument Calendar.

923 F.3d 1260 (2019)

CITY OF MIAMI, a Florida municipal corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WELLS FARGO & CO., Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Defendants-Appellees. City of Miami, a Florida Municipal Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Bank of America Corporation, Bank of America, N.A., Countrywide Financial Corporation, Countrywide Home Loans, Countrywide Bank, FSB, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 3, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steve W. Berman , Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, LLP, SEATTLE, WA, Robert S. Peck , Center for Constitutional Litigation, PC, NEW YORK, NY, Elaine T. Byszewski , Lee M. Gordon , Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, LLP, PASADENA, CA, Erwin Chemerinsky , University of California, Irvine, IRVINE, CA, Lance Harke , Harke Clasby & Bushman, LLP, MIAMI SHORES, FL, Howard Liberson , Joel Liberson , Trial & Appellate Resources, PC, EL SEGUNDO, CA, Victoria Mendez , Office of the Miami City Attorney, MIAMI, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Paul Francis Hancock , Olivia Waters Kelman , K & L Gates, LLP, MIAMI, FL, Neal Katyal , Eugene Alexis Sokoloff , Hogan Lovells US, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, Carol Ann Licko , John F. O'Sullivan , Hogan Lovells US, LLP, MIAMI, FL, Andrew C. Glass , K & L Gates, LLP, BOSTON, MA, Clayton P. Solomon , Parker Davidson Thomson , Stroock Stroock & Lavan, LLP, MIAMI, FL, for Defendants-Appellees Wells Fargo & Co. and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Rachel E. Goodman , ACLU Foundation, NEW YORK, NY, for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, AARP, AARP Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida, Inc., Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., National Fair Housing Alliance, Inc., Eight Local Fair Housing Centers Located Within the Eleventh Circuit, and The Poverty & Race Research Action Council.

James M. Evangelista , Kristi Stahnke McGregor , David J. Worley , Evangelista Worley, LLC, ATLANTA, GA, for Amici Curiae Cobb County, Georgia, Dekalb County, Georgia, and Fulton County, Georgia.

Thomas Hefferon , William M. Jay , Matthew S. Sheldon , Goodwin Procter, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, Christopher Stephen Carver , Akerman, LLP, MIAMI, FL, Brendan Herbert , Locke Lord, LLP, WEST PALM BEACH, FL, Joel Liberson , Trial & Appellate Resources, PC, EL SEGUNDO, CA, James McGarry , Goodwin Procter, LLP, BOSTON, MA, for Defendant-Appellee Bank of America Corporation.

Thomas Hefferon , William M. Jay , Matthew S. Sheldon , Goodwin Procter, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, Christopher Stephen Carver , Akerman, LLP, MIAMI, FL, Brendan Herbert , Locke Lord, LLP, WEST PALM BEACH, FL, James McGarry , Goodwin Procter, LLP, BOSTON, MA, for Defendant-Appellee Bank of America, N.A.

Thomas Hefferon , William M. Jay , Matthew S. Sheldon , Goodwin Procter, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, Christopher Stephen Carver , Akerman, LLP, MIAMI, FL, Brendan Herbert , Locke Lord, LLP, WEST PALM BEACH, FL, for Defendants-Appellees Countrywide Financial Corporation, Countrywide Home Loans, and Countrywide Bank, FSB.

Christopher Brancart , Elizabeth Brancart , Brancart & Brancart, PESCADERO, CA, Morgan Whitney Williams , National Fair Housing Alliance, WASHINGTON, DC, for Amici Curiae Center for Fair Housing, Inc., Central Alabama Fair Housing Center, Fair Housing Center of the Greater Palm Beaches, Fair Housing Center of Northern Alabama, Fair Housing Continuum, Inc., Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence, Inc., Metro Fair Housing Services, Inc., National Fair Housing Alliance, and Savannah-Chatham County Fair Housing Council, Inc.

Matthew W. Dietz , Disability Independence Group, MIAMI, FL, Thomas J. Henderson , Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, for Amicus Curiae International Municipal Lawyers Association.

Matthew W. Dietz , Disability Independence Group, MIAMI, FL, for Amicus Curiae Housing Scholars.

Before MARCUS and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and SCHLESINGER, District Judge.


This pair of ambitious fair housing lawsuits brought by the City of Miami against major financial institutions returns to our Court after having been appealed to the Supreme Court and resolved there in Bank of America Corp. v. City of Miami, ___ U.S. ___, 137 S.Ct. 1296

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