(Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court saidpeople who file housing-discrimination suits don't have to showthey were victims of intentional bias, in a blow to lenders andinsurers and a surprise legal victory for the Obamaadministration.
|The 5-4 ruling upholds a category of U.S. Fair Housing Actlawsuits that civil rights groups said are especially important —and business groups consider particularly onerous.The court said plaintiffs can base their suits atleast in part on statistical evidence that a disputed policy has a"disparate impact" on a minority group.
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