Southwest Fair Housing Council v. Mdwid, 17 F.4th 950 (2021)

Citation: Southwest Fair Housing Council v. Mdwid, 17 F.4th 950 (2021)
Parent Document: Southwest Fair Housing Council v. Mdwid, 17 F.4th 950 (2021)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2021-11-12
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/5296996/southwest-fair-housing-council-v-mdwid/ ↗

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to apply the Security Deposit Policy is readily explainable
on grounds of common-sense business practices: businesses
must be paid for their services to stay in business. These
grounds are other than race or familial status. Nor is there
any evidence that the District’s business-related grounds
were pretextual. A demonstration that a business may have
known that a challenged policy could result in a
disproportionate impact on certain members of a protected
class is simply not sufficient on its own to impose liability
for a disparate-treatment claim. 19

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