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Less than a month before its scheduled December 4th, 2013 hearing in the Supreme Court of the United States ( SCOTUS ), the Fair Housing Act of 1968 New Jersey case of Mount Holly vs. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action has settled. This is the second time in recent months that SCOTUS will miss an opportunity to decide a significant issue of civil rights law. In this case --- the scope of the federal law against racial discrimination in home sales and rentals. Under the terms of the New Jersey settlement the two sides will withdraw their case in the Supreme Court --- an automatic result when a case settles [SCOTUS Docket no. 11-1507, 3d Circuit, October Term 2013].
At issue in the case, granted review by the Court in June 2013, is whether the Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlaws official housing policies that are not the result of intentional racial or other bias, but rather have a negative impact on minorities or others protected by the law. SCOTUS had agreed two years ago, for
the first time, to decide that issue in a case from St, Paul, Minnesota but that case ended in a settlement, as well.
[Credit to http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/11/13/new-fair-housing-case-settled ]
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