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Foreclosures
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International Financial Law Prof Blog
Real Estate Investor Pleads Guilty to Rigging Bids at Online Foreclosure Auctions
First Guilty Plea Involving Foreclosure Auctions in Florida Real estate investor Stuart Hankin pleaded guilty today for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids, in violation of antitrust law,…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Sixth Mississippi Real Estate Investor Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Rig Bids at Public Foreclosure Auctions
Mississippi real estate investor Ivan Spinner became the sixth real estate investor to plead guilty in connection with the ongoing investigation into bid rigging at public real estate foreclosure auctions…
PropertyProf Blog
The CFPB’s Complaint Database and Property Problems
By Chris Odinet
Acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Mick Mulvaney has been in the news quite a bit lately. He recently dismissed all 25 members of the agency’s Consumer…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
All The Way to An Affirmance
The Court of Appeals rarely takes cases. Here, in Mid-Hudson Val. Fed. Credit Union v Quartararo & Lois, PLLC 2018 NY Slip Op 04034 Decided on June 7, 2018 the Court of Appeals…
Financial Services Perspectives
Florida Third District Court of Appeal’s Ruling in Favor of Reverse Mortgage Lender Signals New Positive Outlook for Non-Borrowing Spouse Issue
By James W. Wright Jr., R. Aaron Chastain
Reverse mortgage lenders received a significant victory in Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal last week when the court issued its decision in OneWest Bank, FSB v. Palmero. After previously…
Energy & the Law
Foreclosure Included the Minerals Because the Documents Said So
Scenes from the trial lawyer's conference room: Client: “Lookee here! This paragraph says we win!” Lawyer: Yes, but what about all the other paragraphs?” “Those don't matter.” Why is that?” “Because…
Financial Services Perspectives
Is a Foreclosure Crisis Looming in Our Nation’s Capital?
By Andrew J. Narod, Jon H. Patterson, R. Aaron Chastain
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals recently sent a new set of shockwaves through the mortgage industry in the nation’s capital when it released its decision in Andrea Liu…
Southeast Financial Litigation Monitor
Alabama Supreme Court: Mortgage requirements must be strictly followed
In a recent surprising loss for mortgage holders, the Alabama Supreme Court held that a failure to strictly comply with the exact terms of the mortgage when conducting a foreclosure…
Association Alert
What to do With Bank and Other Third-Party Foreclosures
When a foreclosure is first initiated by a bank or some other third-party, the association has three choices: Do nothing and hope that the foreclosure is actually completed and that…
Ahead of Schedule
The Poisoned Foreclosure – Lawyers Beware of the Affirmative Duty to Search Records
By Sylvia Arostegui, Eric Skanchy
A Sacramento bankruptcy judge issued a hard hitting judgment against Bank of America for the way it handled a single residential foreclosure in Lincoln, California. Referring to the famous novelist…