Beverly Adkins et al. v Morgan Stanley

“The National Consumer Law Center is co-counsel for African American plaintiffs in a prospective class action lawsuit brought against Morgan Stanley. The lawsuit claims that the Defendant violated federal civil rights laws, the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act as well as state laws by adopting mortgage securitization policies that caused predatory lending and adversely impacted African Americans in the Detroit, Michigan area. It is the first case where a prospective class of affected homeowners victimized by subprime lending abuses has directly sued an investment bank. It is also the first lawsuit to connect racial discrimination to the securitization of mortgage-backed securities.

• The Adkins v. Morgan Stanley lawsuit asserts that Morgan Stanley pursued mortgage securitization policies and practices that, through their funding of now-defunct mortgage lender New Century Mortgage Company, resulted in a significant discriminatory impact on African-American borrowers in the Detroit metropolitan area, flooding the already highly segregated community with toxic, combined-risk subprime loans in the lead-up to the collapse of the housing market in 2008. Read the expert reports submitted in support of the reverse red-lining allegations made in the case and NCLC’s issue brief detailing key findings by the experts.”
  NCLC Issue Brief (Nov. 2014)
  Ayers Expert Report
  McCoy Expert Report
  Oliver Expert Report
  Segrue Expert Report
• See also New York Times – Court Filing Illuminates Morgan Role in Lending