COUNTY OF COOK, ILLINOIS v. BANK OF AMERICA CORP.

No. 22-1407.

78 F.4th 970 (2023)

COUNTY OF COOK, ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 16, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford P. Dumain , Attorney, Milberg, Coleman, Bryson, Phillips, Grossman, PLLC, Garden City, NY, Kenneth A. Wexler, Esq. , Attorney, Wexler Boley & Elgersma LLP, Chicago, IL, James M. Evangelista , Kristi Stahnke McGregor , David J. Worley , Attorneys, Evangelista Worley LLC, Atlanta, GA, Robert S. Peck , Attorney, Center for Constitutional Litigation P.C., Washington, DC, Stephen J. Raab , Attorney, Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC, Chicago, IL, Leslie Glover Toran , Attorney, TMX Financial Corporate Services, Inc., Carrollton, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Thomas M. Hefferon , Matthew S. Sheldon , Benjamin Timothy Hayes , Andrew Kim , Attorneys, William M. Jay , Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Easterbrook, Ripple, and Wood, Circuit Judges.


Cook County contends that a number of banks operating in northern Illinois made credit too readily available to some borrowers, who defaulted, and then foreclosed on the loans in a way that injured the County. It filed this suit in 2014 under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601-19 (FHA or the Act).

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