Meyer v. Holley

Meyer v. Holley, 537 U.S. 280 (2003), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Fair Housing Act imposes strict liability on residential real estate corporations for racial discrimination, but the officers and owners of the corporation generally will not be held vicariously liable for offenses committed by the corporation's employees of agents.^[1] In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Stephen Breyer, the Court held that the Fair Housing Act "imposes liability without fault upon the employer in accordance with traditional agency principles, i. e., it normally imposes vicarious liability upon the corporation but not upon its officers or owners."^[2]

Meyer v. Holley
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 3, 2002 Decided January 22, 2003
Full case name	Meyer v. Holley et al.
Citations	537 U.S. 280 (more) 123 S. Ct. 824; 154 L. Ed. 2d 753
Case history
Prior	Holley v. Crank, 258 F.3d 1127 (9th Cir. 2001); cert. granted, 535 U.S. 1077 (2002).
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Breyer, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. § 3604(b); 42 U.S.C. § 3605(a))

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases
• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 537
• List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court

References

1. Meyer v. Holley, 537 U.S. 280, 282 (2003).
2. Meyer, 537 U.S. at 282.

External links

• Text of Meyer v. Holley, 537 U.S. 280 (2003) is available from: Findlaw Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)