Foreclosures
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1.4KThe Fifth Circuit Bakes a Riddle to Favor Banks Against Homeowner Rights
The opinion is a good news for lenders and bad news for homeowners as there is now some precedent that lenders cannot...
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1.3KEditors Choice: Is Foreclosure Debt Collection? The US Supreme Court Heard Oral Arguments on Monday (Minus a Recovering Justice Ginsberg)
Justice Samuel Alito (for the Fifth Circuit) seemed the most receptive to that argument (a foreclosure is NOT a debt collection), telling...
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2.7KOcwen: The “Chosen” Sub Servicer for the Banking Industry Continues to Grow with Fake WatchDog Lawsuits Used as Decoys to Pacify the Public Glare
Ocwen is propped up financially by New Residential Investment Corp. (NRI) which had swept in Phoenix-like in the wake of the April,...
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1.8KCan We Get a P-Wease for a Two Count Remand Against Ocwen for Breach of Contract?
It appears that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has a New Years Resolution in relation to review of foreclosure cases by...
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1.6KSupreme Court of Florida Decides Homeowner is Entitled to Attorney Fees in Foreclosure Case
Because our case law is clear that a voluntary dismissal of an appeal renders the opposing party the prevailing party for the...
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1.3KEditors Choice: Is Foreclosure Debt Collection? The US Supreme Court to Decide if FDCPA Applies to Foreclosure Mills and Bounty Hunting Attorneys
Were the Supreme Court to want to include attorneys effecting nonjudicial foreclosures under the FDCPA’s definition of debt collectors, it might find...
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1.4KDissenting Justice Alito of the US Supreme Court for the Fifth Circuit and the FDCPA.
FDCPA This case presents the question whether the bona fide error defense in applies to a violation resulting from a debt collector's...
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1.4KThe Fifth Circuit’s Carol: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Carol Paselk sued the defendants for foreclosing on her residential property. Representative Farenthold publicly promised to reimburse the U.S. Treasury for $84,000...
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1.5KA Hedge Fund Makes Billions Off Americans’ Underwater Mortgages
Fortunes were made on Wall Street betting against sketchy mortgages before the housing bust a decade ago. In its aftermath, one firm...
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1.6KThe Kansas Shuffle by Deutsche Bank, an early opinion by NY Judge Schack in the Mortgage Robosigning Scandal
A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left .. . It's not something people hear about. Falls on...
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1.7KEditors Choice: From the Trenches, a Lawyers Opinion
WE must take responsibility for our economy and become, first more educated, and secondly, more opinioned clients of financial providers as opposed...
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1.9KSpecial Report: Foreclosure Horror: The Zombie Title
Thousands of homeowners are finding themselves legally liable after banks decided it wasn’t worth their while to complete foreclosures.
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1.6KEditors Choice: Wells Fargo Bank, Here’s $15,000 for Wrongful Eviction and Foreclosure, Our Bad
We were desperate. I begged them for help, homeowner Eva Reiner says. But Wells Fargo did not accept their requests for a...
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1.2KFannie, Freddie announce you won’t be Homeless until after January 3rd
While mortgage servicers and lenders may still engage in legal activities related to foreclosure, affected families won't be locked out of the...
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1.4KA Toxic Decision is Reversed for Remand back to the State Court
In this toxic spill and personal injury claim, the plaintiff, Crumpian, appeals from a summary judgment dismissing his suit.We VACATE the judgment...
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1.4KNo Mailbox Rule for Non-Prisoners, exclaims The Fifth Circuit
Debra Lohri’s notice of appeal from the bankruptcy court to the district court arrived at the office of the bankruptcy clerk a few...
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1.1KThere were 66,401 properties with foreclosure filings in October, a jump of 21% from the previous month
Foreclosure activity is down nationwide from a year ago, but certain local housing markets tell a different story.
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1.6KForeclosure firm admits to cheating and Over-billing Millions
A New York foreclosure law firm admitted to defrauding Fannie Mae and the Department of Veterans Affairs out of millions of dollars...
