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052225P.pdf 03/08/2006 Marva Jean Saunders v. Farmers Insurance
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 05-2225
and No: 05-2231
and No: 05-2228
Western District of Missouri
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Fagg and Bye, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. District court did not err in dismissing claims
for lack of standing. See this court's opinion in McClain v. American
Econ. Ins. Co., 424 F.3d 728 (8th Cir. 2005). However, the court erred in
dismissing plaintiff's claims that the defendants violated the Fair Housing
Act and the Civil Rights Act by charging homeowners in predominantly
black neighborhoods higher premium rates for the same type of coverage
they provided homeowners in white neighborhoods; the filed rate
doctrine may not be applied to bar damage claims under federal civil
rights statutes based upon the state's economic regulation of insurance
rates.