City of Oakland v. Wells Fargo & Company

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CITY OF OAKLAND, A Municipal No. 19-15169 Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 3:15-cv-04321- v. EMC

WELLS FARGO & COMPANY; WELLS

FARGO BANK, N.A., OPINION

Defendants-Appellants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Edward M. Chen, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted En Banc June 23, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed September 28, 2021

Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Richard A. Paez, Consuelo M. Callahan, Sandra S. Ikuta, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Andrew D. Hurwitz, Ryan D. Nelson, Bridget S. Bade, and Lawrence VanDyke, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge McKeown CITY OF OAKLAND V. WELLS FARGO & CO.

SUMMARY *

Fair Housing Act

The en banc court affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court’s partial grant and partial denial of Wells Fargo’s motion to dismiss and remanded for dismissal of the City of Oakland’s claims under the Fair Housing Act, alleging that Wells Fargo’s discriminatory lending…