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Ninth Circuit Holds That Debt Collector’s Interest Demand Did Not Violate FDCPA

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently reversed a District Court’s grant of...

Kentucky Court of Appeals Rejects Mortgage’s Subordination Clause

The Kentucky Court of Appeals recently held that the subrogation clause in one mortgage was ineffective to...

Illinois Federal Court Holds That Debt Collector May Be Liable For Filing Lawsuit Based on Retroactive Seventh Circuit Decision

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently held that the filing of...

New York Court Holds Failure to Pay Homeowners’ Insurance Is Not Cause for Foreclosure on Reverse Mortgage

A New York Supreme Court recently held that a lender may not foreclose on a reverse mortgage...

New Jersey Federal Court Dismisses 100-Plaintiff Complaint Against Lenders

The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey recently granted jurisdiction, severed and dismissed...

SDNY Holds That a Defendant Is Not Required to Produce Documents of Its Subsidiaries

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied the class action plaintiffs’...

New York Federal Court Holds That Tax Sale Foreclosure May Constitute a Fraudulent Conveyance

The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York held that property acquired via...

New Jersey Supreme Court Declares Tax Sale Certificate to be Tax Liens

In a decision resolving years of conflicting New Jersey opinions, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided this...

New Jersey Bankruptcy Court Holds That Tax Sale Foreclosure May Constitute a Fraudulent Conveyance

In a decision that endorsed the Court’s previous holding of In re Berley, the United States Bankruptcy...