Recent Accomplishments Of The Housing And Civil Enforcement Section

Citation: Recent Accomplishments Of The Housing And Civil Enforcement Section
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would attract Orthodox Jews. The statement was filed in response to a motion filed by the defendants seeking to dismiss plaintiffs’ FHA claims as prudentially unripe under BMG Monroe I, LLC v Vil. of Monroe, 93 F4th 595 (2d Cir. 2024). The statement explains that Monroe did not alter existing law on prudential ripeness and that the Court had correctly rejected the defendants’ ripeness arguments in a prior ruling. The statement also explains that no additional land use proceedings would help define the plaintiffs’ injury because the plaintiffs’ amended complaint plausibly alleged that the Township had used the land use process in a discriminatory fashion to delay the proposed housing development, which had inflicted economic and other injuries on plaintiffs. On March 27, 2023, the United States filed its first Statement of Interest, arguing that the plaintiffs’ Fair Housing Act claims, premised in part on the Zoning Board of Appeals’ denial of their building permit applications, were ripe and that the plaintiffs, who alleged lost profits and lost home sales, had standing to assert their FHA claims. On July 9, 2025, the court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ FHA claims as unripe.
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA)
On June 11, 2026, the United States filed a complaint in United States v. New Mexico Supreme Court and New Mexico Board of Bar Examiners (D. N.M.) alleging that the New Mexico Supreme Court and the New Mexico Board of Bar Examiners have refused to recognize the out-of-state law licenses of qualifying military spouses and servicemembers as valid in accordance with the licensing portability provision in the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), 50 U.S.C. § 4025a.
On May 28, 2026, the United States reached a settlement resolving