All posts tagged "us supreme court"
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2.0KFDCPAAs We Have Stated Before, the Highest Court in the United States Refuses to Hear Any Cases Related to the Financial Crisis in 2008. This Article Revisits the US Supreme Court Decision to Reverse its Grant Related to a RESPA Class Action in 2011.
Seven years ago the U.S. Supreme Court decided to dismiss as improvidently granted its agreement to hear the following RESPA case. Since...
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3.9KDeutsche BankFormer US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Resigned to Protect His Son who Loaned Donald Trump up to One Billion Dollars while at Deutsche Bank
President Trump has leveraged his financial connections with Kennedy’s son Justin to convince or coerce the jurist to retire ahead of the...
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2.0KFake DocumentsSince the Financial Crisis in 2008, The US Supreme Court Has Refused to Hear a Single Case about MERS and Foreclosure Fraud on Citizens, Instead they Travel and Write to Supplement their $255k Salaries
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, led her colleagues in globetrotting to speak or participate at conferences. She took 14 trips to as...
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2.2KFederal LawThe Law of the Case Doctrine Applied by Utah Supreme Court to Aid Texas Trustee to Foreclose on Utah Home
The Summary of the Opinion - The Comptroller (at the helm is Joseph Otting, AKA former Foreclosure Magnet and sidekick to Steve...
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1.8KFederal LawFive Unassuming Grants by the United States Supreme Court Order List for June 10, 2019
The Supreme Court added five new cases to its merits docket for next term, on topics ranging from international child-custody law to the statute...
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1.9K5Debt CollectorTrump’s Treasury Pick Steve Mnuchin Excels at Kicking Elderly People Out of Their Homes
OneWest has foreclosed on at least 50,000 people, often in circumstances that consumer advocates say run counter to federal rules and common...
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1.6KLaws In TexasHow Texas Lawmakers Patched Open Government Laws But Kept Government Agencies Immune from Open Record Requests
HB 4181 would also transfer much of the authority of legislative records from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to the...
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2.3KLaws In TexasHow a House Bill Becomes Law in the State of Texas
The Texas Constitution divides state government into three separate but equal branches: the executive branch, headed by the governor; the judicial branch,...
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1.7KFederal LawThe US Supreme Court Takes On the Fifth Circuit’s Stiff Sentencing
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected Holguin’s argument that the consecutive year term was substantively unreasonable. Holguin failed...
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2.2KEditors ChoiceEditors Choice: U.S. Supreme Court Rule Debt Collecting Foreclosure Attorneys are Not Debt Collectors under the FDCPA
Congress may think these state protections adequate, or it may choose to expand the reach of the FDCPA. Regardless, for the reasons...
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Supreme Court Declines Texas Banks Challenge to CFPB’s Structure with Steven Mnuchin as the Named Party
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a challenge to the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Texas Bank v US...
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1.2KFifth CircuitThe US Supreme Court Slaps Fifth Circuit Panel of Graves, Higginbotham and Higginsons Decision Not to Arbitrate
The wholly groundless exception to arbitrability is inconsistent with the Federal Arbitration Act and this Court’s precedent. Under the Act, arbitration is...
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1.3KEditors ChoiceEditors 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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1.3KEditors ChoiceEditors 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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1.4KFDCPADissenting 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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1.3KDebt CollectorThe CFPB should change it’s name from Consumer to Pro-Bank Bureau
The CFPB or more aptly named the Pro-Bank Bureau, asserts that deeming the initiation of a non-judicial foreclosure proceeding to be debt...
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1.7KForeclosuresThe worst financial crisis since the Great Depression
A decade ago, the United States was engulfed in perhaps the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Toxic mortgage debt had...
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1.2KFederal LawWhen You Cannot Decide which Route is the Best on the Map of Texas
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito signaled that it had no problem with the most recent round of delay tactics...
