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Arizona Supreme Court Hogan Decision Released Tomorrow
The Arizona Supreme Court said, regarding the long-awaited decision, on its web site today: The Arizona Supreme Court anticipates the filing of an Opinion in the following cases at approximately 10:00...
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Unseemly is One Word For It
This is a great post on Naked Capitalism from Michael Olenick. The scenario described is not at all rare, unfortunately. Elements of their case that should surprise have become the new normal. An...
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Washington Attorney General Reaches Consent Decree With ReconTrust
ReconTrust is a Bank of America company that pretends to be an independent trustee under deeds of trust serviced and sometimes owned by other Bank of America affiliates. The AG for the State of...
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Oregon Supreme Court in Niday Case
Here’s an excerpt of a great summary of the Niday case, from HouseKeeping Report. Go to the site and read the whole thing; it is worth your time: Niday Gets Interesting Up to this point, the opinion...
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Foreclosure News
Excellent article by Professor Elizabeth Renuart for the William & Mary Law Review, entitled Property Title Trouble in Non-Judicial Foreclosure States: The Ibanez Time Bomb? New case out of...
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California Supreme Court Refuses to Depublish Glaski Decision
You remember Glaski, in which a California Appeals Court found that borrowers have standing to challenge void assignments of their loans, even if they were not a party to or a beneficiary of the...
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Foreclosure Links
Evidence Suggests MERS Was Conceived in a “Fraud Friendly” Way Bank of America’s Assignment and Blank Endorsement Were Insufficient to Transfer Ownership Interest 2014-10-16 – Nash – Final Judgment...
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Travis County Recorder Speaks Out Against MERS and the Fifth Circuit Ruling
In Travis County, a large Texas county with Austin (my alma mater) serving as the county seat, the County Clerk derided a recent MERS-related decision of the notoriously “conservative” (really meaning...
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Lady Justice Awakens Slowly after Seven Year Coma; Rule of Law Needs Major...
While we typically think of the rule of law as being designed to protect the weak against the strong, and ordinary citizens against the privileged, those with wealth will use their political power to...
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Judges Should Not Engage in Ad Hoc Law-Making to Help Banks Skirt Legal...
Should our judges be skewing our laws in favor of after-the-fact relief to the “community of lenders,” as one appellate court judge put it? Yale Law Journal published an interesting comment about...
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