Jeff Sovern on Obama Administration's Plan to End Racial Discrimination by Car Dealers

February 4, 2014

In the Media

The Obama Administration Wants to End Racial Discrimination by Car Dealers. Why Are 35 Dems Getting in the Way?
By Erika Eichelberger
Mother Jones
January 21, 2014

Excerpt:
Jeff Sovern, a law professor and expert in consumer law at St. John's University in New York, adds that the low prices some customers have been paying may have been subsidized by the higher prices paid by minorities. "It's not usually considered a defense that the beneficiaries of racism should keep the lower prices that other groups pay for," he says.

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