Texas
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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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1.5KOneWest Bank paid 24 percent of the Loan Book Value to purchase Mortgage Servicing rights of IndyMac after 2008 Bank failure
After IndyMac collapsed in 2008, the receiver/conservator from the FDIC negotiated a sweet deal for Steve Mnuchin to purchase the loan book...
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2.0KNationstar (Texas) is another Mortgage Servicer who Bought Loans after the 2008 Crash Rebrands to Mr Blooper, no Mr Cooper
According to the CFPB, Nationstar’s $1.75 million fine is the largest HMDA civil penalty ever imposed by the CFPB. The size of...
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1.5KMetLife Home Loans LLC is another Lender Based in the Foreclosure Mill Zone of Irving, Texas with a Felonious History
MetLife Home Loans LLC, Successor to MetLife Bank N.A., to Pay $123.5 Million to Resolve Alleged Federal Housing Administration Mortgage Lending Violations
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1.8KColonial Savings Couldn’t care Sweet FA about Maintaining Flood Insurance for Home Loans
The image above shows that Colonial Savings FA, bought Mortgage Servicing rights from loans after the financial collapse in 2008. It paid...
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1.6KStanding Up for Magistrate Judge Smith, ehem… Mr. Nesbitt
A Good Man, an Honest Man: Stephen W. Smith, Magistrate Judge, Houston, Texas Federal Court, Southern District authored this article: Stanford Law...
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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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1.3KTexas Judiciary Launches Case Search Online but Refuses Public Access to Full Search Capabilities
re:searchTX: The new online Texas law case search portal. Attorneys will have expanded access to documents not available to the public.
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1.6KTexas Bank’s CFPB Challenge would Recuse Supreme Justice says Dept Of Justice
The lawsuit by State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas, is not the right vehicle to take up the CFPB’s constitutionality because...
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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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1.6KThe Judicial Exception: A Mandate, A Mortgage and a Prisoner
Randy Dewayne Pittman appeals his sentence of 51 months in prison, imposed following his guilty plea conviction of possession of a firearm...
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1.4KActing US Attorney General Whitaker due in Austin, Texas for Press Conference
Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is scheduled to be in Austin on Tuesday to meet with officials from the local office...
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1.6KWhat Kathy Kraninger’s nomination might mean for the CFPB and the Consumer
A surprise nomination Kraninger was a virtual unknown until late last week, when rumors of her nomination started circling. Unlike other contenders...
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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...
