{"id":2905,"date":"2022-03-03T20:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/03\/nar-asks-court-to-dismiss-listing-agent-omission-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:40:45","slug":"nar-asks-court-to-dismiss-listing-agent-omission-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/03\/nar-asks-court-to-dismiss-listing-agent-omission-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"NAR asks court to toss listing agent omission lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The National Association of Realtors<\/strong> (NAR) last week asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by broker Grady Hillis of <strong>Grady Hillis Realty<\/strong> in Lakeside, Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/webassets.inman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NAR_MOTION_to_Dismiss_Case_02242022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the motion to dismiss<\/a>, NAR states that the lawsuit does not satisfy minimum pleading requirements and does not state a valid claim. The trade group said the lawsuit was chock full of \u201crepetitive and confusing allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hillis first filed the lawsuit, in which NAR, <strong>Arizona Association of Realtors<\/strong> and the <strong>White Mountain Association of Realtors (WMAR)<\/strong> are named as defendants, in September, alleging that the organizations have been redacting information about the listing agent from his sales listings when a copy was emailed to a potential buyer. Hillis\u2019s claims include breach of contract, negligence, tortious (wrongful) interference with a contractual relationship, aiding and abetting tortious conduct, and violations of the First Amendment and antitrust laws. In addition, Hillis is seeking $1.18 billion in punitive damages, a number he reached by multiplying the cost of the dues he pays the Realtor associations in one year ($843) by <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/there-are-more-realtors-than-ever-and-few-homes-to-sell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1.4 million Realtors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 25, Hillis filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/webassets.inman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AMENDED_COMPLAINT_First_Amended_Complaint_01252022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,295 page amendment<\/a> to his initial complaint, notable for its unusual length. The amendment includes 1,013 separate allegations against the Realtor associations, however, it appears to repeat the same allegation for each listing in which Hillis\u2019s contact information was removed from the listing description in the WMAR multiple listing service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom the face of the Amended Complaint, NAR cannot understand the nature of the claims Plaintiffs are asserting against NAR, discern Plaintiffs\u2019 legal theories, or meaningfully admit or deny Plaintiffs\u2019 repetitive and confusing allegations,\u201d NAR\u2019s attorneys wrote in the motion to dismiss. \u201cThe Amended Complaint therefore fails to provide the \u2018short and plain\u2019 statement of Plaintiffs\u2019 claims that is required \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the filing, NAR attorneys also highlight what they call \u201csubstantive defect\u201d in the complaint that they believe are \u201cfatal\u201d to Hillis\u2019s claims, stating that Hillis never identified a contract between himself and the NAR that could have been breached, and that Hillis lacked factual allegations regarding the antitrust claims he makes. NAR\u2019s attorneys also state that \u201cPlaintiffs assert First Amendment claims against NAR, but NAR is not a government actor. Plaintiffs assert negligence claims, but they identify no duty owed to them by NAR.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MLSs across the country have rules in place prohibiting listing agent contact information from appearing in listing descriptions. In 2021, however, <strong>California Regional MLS (CRMLS<\/strong>) and NAR adopted new policies that sought to clarify who the listing agent or broker is on online listings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hillis\u2019s complaint also said that the Realtor associations require that Supra lockboxes be used on listed homes and that only member of WMAR can use the lockboxes, which he alleged was anti-competitive. Similar allegations have been made by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.housingwire.com\/articles\/nar-rakes-in-member-dues-to-fight-doj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Department of Justice<\/a><\/strong> and discount brokerage<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/the-legal-battle-between-rex-homes-and-nar-heats-up%ef%bf%bc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">REX Real Estate<\/a><\/strong>. Hillis has since voluntarily dismissed Supra and MLS vendor FBS as defendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Association of Realtors (NAR) last week asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by broker Grady Hillis of Lakeside, Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34740,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1760],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NAR asks court to toss listing agent omission lawsuit - RealTrends - Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Association of Realtors (NAR) last week asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by broker Grady Hillis of Grady Hillis Realty in Lakeside, Arizona.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/03\/nar-asks-court-to-dismiss-listing-agent-omission-lawsuit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NAR asks court to toss listing agent omission lawsuit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Association of Realtors (NAR) last week asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by broker Grady Hillis of Grady Hillis Realty in Lakeside, Arizona.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/03\/nar-asks-court-to-dismiss-listing-agent-omission-lawsuit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"RealTrends - 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