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The National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) legal team just got another reprieve from Muhammad three-way agreement lawsuit. On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit dismissed appellant and lawsuit plaintiff Maurice Muhammad’s appeal after he failed to file a brief and appendix as requested by the court.
Muhammad filed his appeal of a lower court’s decision to dismiss his lawsuit with prejudice in August.
The suit was initially filed in October 2024 by Maurice Muhammad, a broker at Progressive Realty. He claims that NAR, the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors, Greater Lehigh Valley Realtors and association executives have violated federal civil rights statutes, engaged in unlawful discriminatory practices and breached their contracts.
Additionally, he alleges the creation of a monopolistic system and violations of federal antitrust laws. Muhammad was representing himself in the case.
In his ruling granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss, Judge Joseph F. Leeson wrote that Muhammad only made “bare and conclusory allegations” that the defendants had engaged in price fixing or steering.
Additionally, Leeson did not find that Muhammad had “sufficiently” alleged that restricting MLS access to Realtor members “imposed an unreasonable restraint on trade.”
