WASHINGTON – One of the two former Clover Group employees who sued the Lancaster-based real estate developer, saying it deliberately avoided building in neighborhoods with significant African American populations, has settled his case out of court.
Clover Group, a real estate development firm headquartered in Lancaster, is about to get hit with two federal lawsuits that accuse the firm of deciding where to build senior housing on the basis of race.
R. Shane Forrest, a former development director for Clover in North Carolina, settled the case earlier this month shortly after a mediation session, according to court records. Elizabeth A. Wolford, the chief judge for the U.S. District Court in the Western District of New York, approved the settlement on Thursday.
Court records offer no clues as to how the case was settled. Nate McMurray, Forrest’s attorney, refused to comment on the case or detail any cash settlement that Forrest might have received, and a spokesman for Clover did not respond to a request for comment.
Filing his case against Clover last June, Forrest alleged that race was a key factor in Clover’s site selection process as it decides where to locate new market-rate senior housing.
“Defendant Clover Entities’ unwritten site selection…
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