Leading an ongoing discrimination lawsuit against the country’s largest mortgage lender, Wells Fargo Bank, Ellis George attorneys are seeking to hold the defendant accountable for “unprecedented denial of mortgage loans to minority applicants.”
In a press release published ahead of the sixty-ninth anniversary of the landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, partner Dennis S. Ellis touches on how equality remains elusive for Blacks and other minorities in mortgage lending practices despite the attempted progress made towards equal rights when the Court decided to do away with the doctrine of “separate but equal” in Brown v. Board of Education.
Dennis S. Ellis, who was appointed by Judge James Donato to lead the suit against Wells Fargo, spoke about the consolidated complaint filed in the Northern District of California Court, saying “Black and other minority applicants had their applications intentionally and disproportionately denied, faced unjustified delays in the processing of their applications, and were given less favorable terms, which resulted in Wells Fargo systematically engaging in a new form of redlining that harmed Plaintiffs based on their race and ethnicity.” Ellis goes on to say these practices could have affected as many as 750,000 individuals.
To read the full press release and consolidated complaint, click here.
