In the largest residential fair-lending settlement in history, Bank of America’s Countrywide Financial Corporation has agreed to pay $335 million to settle a dispute over allegations of systemic discrimination against qualified Latino and African-American borrowers. Latinos made up about two-thirds of the cases investigated by the Department of Justice, which reviewed over 200,000 cases across 41 […]
Countrywide Agrees to Pay $335M in Landmark Case over Discriminatory Lending Practices Against Latinos
December 23, 2011 By
MALDEF and Coalition of Civil Rights Groups To Take Up Arizona Law in Court Today
July 22, 2010 By
MALDEF and a coalition of civil rights organizations will ask a judge in Phoenix, Arizona to block the controversial anti-immigration law S.B. 1070 in court today at 10 a.m. PST. The legislation is set to be implemented in a matter of days, but MALDEF along with the other civil rights groups will make the case […]
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