After a federal judge dismissed with prejudice three actions brought by the City of Miami against Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Citibank, CCL, as part of the City's legal team, filed motions for reconsideration and leave to amend, along with supporting memoranda of law. The lawsuits seek damages for loss of tax base and the costs of extra fire and police protection for abandoned properties as a result of the banks' predatory lending practices on the basis of the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) and a cause of action for unjust enrichment. 

In the order dismissing the actions, the judge, sitting in the Southern District of Florida, held that Miami lacked standing to initiate an FHA action and that other economic conditions made it impossible to demonstrate that the banks improper lending practices were a proximate cause of the city's injuries. The CCL memorandum, written by CCL President Robert S. Peck and Senior Litigation Counsel Valerie Nannery, argued that the city's original complaint met the standing requirements set by U.S. Supreme Court precedent and that Eleventh Circuit precedent did not require complaints to eliminate other possible causes to survive a motion to dismiss.  Even so, the motion asked the court to permit the filing of a first amended complaint that would supply the elements that the Court believed were missing and could not be met.