RE/Max East-West slapped with real estate sales discrimination suit

I'd be on the lookout for more of these types of suits in the future as real estate sales and their role in the bubble come more in to foucs.  We've put a lot of time and energy in on the mortgage side of the game; but there is plenty of blame/shame to heap on Realtors who pushed borrowers, sellers and loan originators in to uncomfortable situations. RE/Max East-West is located in Illinois and has been hit with a discrimination suit which alleges that the real estate brokerage steered minorities to neighborhoods referred to as "dumps" with their white clients and provided preferential service and treatment to white clients. Obviously, this is not the only place this occured.  That the Department of Justice felt they had enough evidence to press charges is a testament to how exces