April 3, 2015 — The Monitor in the Westchester case issued a status report on April 1, a report that finally begins to cite a subset of the County’s non-compliance with its consent decree...view
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February 19, 2015 — In a decision rendered yesterday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the unremarkable proposition that HUD decisions to withhold or withdraw funding are...view
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Sept. 29, 2014 — Back in June, despite obvious and fundamental flaws in the Monitor’s proposed methodology for conducting a disparate impact analysis, HUD signed off on that methodology (...view
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Sept. 9, 2014 — Jim Johnson, the Monitor in the Westchester case, released a preliminary report late yesterday purporting to address the disparate impact of the zoning practices of Westchester...view
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July 9, 2014 — The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Poverty and Race Research Action Council have recently sent a letter to Jim Johnson, the Monitor in the...view
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June 27, 2014 — Yesterday evening, Jim Johnson, the Monitor in the Westchester case, issued his biennial report (six months after it was due). The report was a masterpiece of misdirection.
The most...view
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The letter from NFHA - the nation’s leading fair housing organization - that the Monitor chose to ignore.
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Read some of the positions that the County took during the litigation.
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The August 2007 federal court decision denying Westchester’s motion to certify for interlocutory appeal the denial of its motion to dismiss. The citation is 2007 WL 2402997 (S.D.N.Y., August...view