De Reyes v. Waples Mobile Home Park L.P.
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
903 F.3d 415 (2018)

- Written by Darius Dehghan, JD
Facts
Waples Mobile Home Park L.P. (Waples) (defendant) owned a mobile-home park in Virginia. The lots in the park were leased to tenants who used the lots to store their mobile homes. Waples enacted a policy stating that tenants who were undocumented immigrants would be evicted from the park. The statistical evidence indicated that undocumented immigrants comprised 36.4 percent of the Latino population in Virginia, as compared with only 3.6 percent of the non-Latino population. A group of Latino tenants who were undocumented immigrants (the tenants) (plaintiffs) brought suit against Waples, contending that its policy had a disparate impact on Latinos in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA). The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Waples. The tenants appealed.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Floyd, J.)
Dissent (Keenan, J.)
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