The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) has finally issued its much-debated disparate impact rule. HUD argues that the rule—which it plans to apply retroactively—is simply a codification of its existing position that the Fair Housing Act authorizes disparate impact claims. But the rule goes well beyond that. It articulates a burden-shifting framework that places significant new legal burdens onto defendants, and it “clarifies” the standard for “business justification” that HUD had originally proposed into a test that courts have affirmatively rejected. Read More……
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