In a hearing held in the federal district court in Miami, CCL President Robert S. Peck argued that there were no grounds to dismiss the complaint filed by the City of Miami Gardens, Florida against Wells Fargo Bank over its minority mortgage lending practices. Wells Fargo argued that the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Texas Dep’t of Hous. & Cmty. Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 135 S. Ct. 2507, 2521 (2015), had imposed a heightened pleading standard in disparate-impact claims brought under the Fair Housing Act. Peck denied that any additional pleading requirements were imposed and pointed out that the Supreme Court had previously chastised the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for attempting to impose one. Instead, as the Supreme Court’s decisions consistently hold that the plain and simple pleading required by Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure govern.